Battles In The Park - A Mean Streets Tabletop Game in 28mm

             THE HOBBS END GAZETTE

              POLITICAL PARTIES CLASH IN PARK

                          HEAVY POLICE PRESENCE AT MEETINGS 

Hobbs Park is once again a battle ground, families now avoid the area on Sunday afternoons as rival political parties fight for supremacy. The local Constabulary are doing an excellent job but they are over worked and over stretched.  

Last Sunday a meeting by the BUF was attacked by five men hell bent on trouble, anticipating such an outcome the Metropolitan Police had six officers in the park plus several more on call at the station.

The men (none of whom were from Hobbs End) were soon intercepted by the Police and several scuffles broke out. One officer received a cut uniform and a small laceration from a broken bottle and another a black eye.

Soon three of the offenders were arrested, while these arrests were being performed two of the men broke through and attacked a couple of Blackshirts. A Blackshirt managed to knock one of them out whilst the other took to his heels.

Finally four arrests were made, they were taken to Hobbs End Police Station and will appear before Magistrates very soon. 

Political Violence in the East End - A Mean Streets Tabletop Game in 28mm

Disturbance At Hobbs End

Timely Intervention by local Police.

This is the 6 o'clock news.

Yesterday there was a nasty disturbance in the East End, two uniformed members of the BUF went for a pint in the Britannia pub Hobbs End high street. They were chased out by a gang of six dockers, but the timely intervention by a mounted police officer stopped things getting too serious.

The gang, not content with this, proceeded down the high street towards the tube station where another two Blackshirts were selling newspapers.

During the fight two beat police officers joined the fray, and another three (two mounted) came when they heard the whistles.

At the conclusion three arrests were made, the accused will face the Magistrates court on Monday and Fascist newspapers littered the street. Luckily our roving camera man was on the scene and we're more interested to know how he took such great colour photos in 1934!

This is Mertyle Tidworth for the six o'clock news, Hobbs End.