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KENT STAR, n. Name of a(n interwar) Glasgow gang.Sc. 1994 Herald 11 Aug 9:
Violence was synonomous with the name of the original Billy Fullerton. In 1924, the Bridgeton Billy Boys, the largest and most notorious of the gangs which besmirched Glasgow's name for a generation, was born out of a football match involving Bridgeton youths and a team called Kent Star from Calton.Sc. 2004 Evening Times 20 Apr 4:
But gangs of youths of 14 and upward fought pitched battles, particularly in Bridgeton, where the Lollipop and the Kent Star boys fought brutally. No Mean City told it like it was a few years later — the poverty, the unemployment, the violence.