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Its expansion was quickly noticed by its first rival gang, the Cheapside Sloggers, and even though they were not rivals, they were competitors between each one of them divided into territories, in which they acted in certain streets keeping the streets clean and safe.

They were also called simply Sloggers, this group originated in 1870 and were known for fighting over territory and on each of the streets in the Bordesley and Small Heath areas, in which in addition to the unique signatures of attacking the heads of their victims with the buckles of their belts or other times where there were the old taverns and in the back of them they were trained...

In doing so, using rocks as a throwing weapon against landlords who refused to pay for their protection, which was cleaning the streets so to speak, was done by them, occurring for months, the Peaky Blinders fought them in a disproportionate effort to control the domain in the land of private properties.