
Billy Boys - Wikipedia
"Billy Boys", also titled "The Billy Boys", [1] is a loyalist song from Glasgow, sung to the tune of "Marching Through Georgia". [1] It originated in the 1920s as the signature song of one of the Glasgow razor gangs led by Billy Fullerton [ 2 ] and later became viewed to reflect the long-running sectarian religious hatred directed by some ...
The true story of Glasgow's most notorious street gang The Billy …
Aug 22, 2021 · According to local legend, they were formed after infamous founder William, or Billy, Fullerton was ambushed and attacked by a gang of Irish immigrants. As the story goes they broke both his legs...
Notorious Glasgow hardman Billy Fullerton was 'bully and wife …
Jul 1, 2012 · ONE of Scotland's most notorious hardmen has been exposed as a wife-beating bully. A new book reveals original "Billy Boy" Billy Fullerton to be a thug who was far from the romantic figure he...
Who were the real Billy Boys, the Glasgow gang in - HistoryExtra
Oct 8, 2019 · Billy Fullerton, born c1906, was a street fighting man who came to lead a Glasgow gang called the Billy Boys. (Image: Sunday Dispatch 1935) The Billy Boys engaged in bitter feuds with Catholic gangs across Glasgow’s East End.
Glasgow razor gangs - Wikipedia
The Billy Boys were founded and led by Billy Fullerton, a former member of the British Fascists. Fullerton also later became a member of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s.
Glasgow Crime Stories podcast: Billy Fullerton | Glasgow Times
Aug 29, 2022 · It was forged into one of the largest street gangs in UK history by one man – Billy Fullerton. Often dressed in a smart three-piece suit, tie, and with a clean white handkerchief in his top pocket, he could easily have been taken for a businessman or …
Billy Fullerton Bridgeton (Brigton) Billy Boys Gang Glasgow: Billy ...
Apr 28, 2008 · Billy Fullerton died in poverty in 1962 aged 57 years in a single roomed tenement home in Brook Street, Mile-End, just to the north of Bridgeton Cross. He was given a spectacular send-off as around 1000 marched in his funeral cortege - including flute bands - from Bridgeton Cross to the cemetery at Riddrie in the north east of Glasgow.
Billy Boys' razor gang boss Billy Fullerton's grandson says dad …
Aug 27, 2019 · Billy Fullerton, 47, claims chiefs at the BBC hit snubbed him over a villain based on Glasgow’s feared 1920s ‘Razor King’ — also Billy Fullerton. He insisted: “I should have been consulted.”...
Evil faces of Glasgow's gangsters revealed - The Scotsman
Jul 19, 2004 · Fullerton, who died in 1962, founded and led the Billy Boys - which had 800 members at its height - during the 1920s and 1930s, before joining Oswald Mosely’s British Fascists and starting a...
Bleed all about it: Notorious Glasgow razor king Billy leading …
Sep 15, 2019 · Sporting a dapper suit and tie and two shiners, Billy Fullerton looks every inch the gangster. Staring out from the pages of The Weekly News, the leader of the notorious Billy Boys gang was in...