The Calton Tongs, who caused mayhem for more than 60 years in the east end of Glasgow, have virtually ceased to exist thanks to Strathclyde's Community Initiative to reduce Violence (CIRV). This year Glasgow can finally shed the tag as the UK’s violent crime capital as it was revealed that violent crime has dropped by more 50% in little more than a decade, putting Glasgow behind London, Manchester and Liverpool in reported incidents of violence. It was also confirmed this year that active gangs in the city were at the lowest in living memory and had almost become completely non-existent. Gary Barton, 46, a local activist who ran for the council, believes in giving young people something to do to stop them wanting to fight.

Ming is later the victim of a ceremonial killing. In this type of assassinations, the killer murders their victim with a ceremonial axe and gauntlet in a crowded place, thus keeping the population scared of the Red Dragon Tong. Before dying, Ming kills his assassin. After searching Ming's body, the Tong do not find any incriminating note that could hurt their cause. To be sure, they decide to kill anyone who could have received that kind of information from Ming. Looking for the note, they search Sale's house, kill Helena, and eventually, also the servant. After learning of his daughter's death, Sale vows revenge.But tensions were starting to rise. A few shouts rang out, food was thrown and then, at the end of the film, the Calton gang leader McCabe, who would go on to become known as Terror McCabe, stood up and shouted the immortal lines “TONGS YA BASS” at the top his lungs before leading a charge towards the outnumbered Spurs. Read More Related Articles The film is a quasi-remake of Hammer's 1959 film The Stranglers of Bombay. The setting is changed to Hong Kong in 1910 from India in the 19th century but the basic plot of a middle-aged, yet youthful hero attempting to uncover the crimes of a secret sect in a British colony, being captured by the sect, and later released, having a personal stake in the outcome, finding that there is an inside villain, and losing friends or family are all there. 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. There were even a few Catholics from Glasgow's east end and the city's boxing fraternity - including Peter Keenan - who quietly attended his funeral, such was their begrudging respect for this Glasgow hard man. In the 30’s the name had evolved to San Toi with another Calton razor gang The Calton Entry also appearing on the scene.

In the late 70’s and 80’s the word “real” was added to their title after a spate of copycat Tongs springing up in Ibrox and elsewhere in the east end. Read More Related Articles On Fair Saturday we have something called Bastille Ya Baz! We will not go into the fact that the organisers cannot spell the good Old Glasgow word "bass". Gsw. 1990 Douglas Lipton in Hamish Whyte and Janice Galloway New Writing Scotland 8: The Day I Met the Queen Mother 58: There are still trouble spots, such as an abandoned school 100 yards down from his shop, where a fight broke out a couple of weeks ago. But even here, incidents have tailed off. In 2008, as the social media generation started to take hold and youth culture all over the world was experiencing a massive change, the amount of gangs in the city had started to rapidly decrease.

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I'm a fan of the old Gorbals Story movie from 1948 and thought it would be a good idea to do a more modern version." The only real similarities these days lie in the name. The YSC. The Young Sooside Cumbae. Which you can still see in graffiti found on walls, lampposts and phone-boxes in parts of the Gorbals. Relics of the past but a warning for the future. He said:"We don't really get trouble any more, nothing worth mentioning. The vast majority of people around here are really decent and want a quiet life."

For years The Calton Tongs, the original Tongs, were one of the most feared and infamous to come out of the city- so much so that when they finally appeared to have met their demise in 2011, after running a reign of terror throughout the east end for generations, Police Scotland felt necessary to mark the occasion by issuing a press release celebrating the death of the young team dubbed “Scotland’s most violent gang”. That day, led by McCabe, the Calton gang dished out a terrible beating to the Spur inside the picture hall. It left nobody in any doubt who the victors were. And who the new power in the east end was. Tongland (Image: Wikipedia) The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films wrote of the film: " The Terror of the Tongs, perhaps thankfully a rarely-seen film, remains resolutely undistinguished in almost every department." [1]Ya bass" is generally taken as Glasgow slang for "you bastard", though it has been proposed it could be the Gaelic war cry aigh bas meaning "battle and die". [7] Another Glasgow gang slogan was "Spur ya Bass" (this was the name of one of the two rival gangs from the Barrowfield area). [8] "Tongs Ya Bass" arguably became Glasgow's unofficial motto in the 1960s and 1970s. [9] The youngster's plan doesn't go well however when he accidentally shoots the leader of the gang, (played by Kevin Kidd) he wants to join and when into the bargain the artist brother also starts romancing the guy's girl-friend too, clearly there will be recriminations for the brothers down the line.