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CALTON ENTRY MOB, prop.n. also Calton Entry Boys. Name for a Glasgow gang active esp. in the 1920s and 30s.Gsw. 1990 John and Willy Maley From the Calton to Catalonia 1:
Back closes runnin wae dug pee and East End young team runnin wae the San Toy, the Kent Star, the Sally Boys, the Black Star, the Calton Entry Mob, and the Cheeky Forty, the Romeo Boys, the Antique Mob, and the Stickit Boys.Sc. 2002 Evening Times 23 Nov 8:
At a Billy Boys wedding in 1926, the bridegroom stood before the minister with a sword concealed in his morning suit, the best man had a gun in his pocket and the gang leader, Billy Fullerton, sporting a previous injury, wore a bloodstained bandage on his head. When the wedding party emerged, the Calton Entry boys threw bottles and bricks not confetti.