The above makes Halifax sound like a rural idyll. Avoid the Briggs (ice cream barons) and the McDonaghs (hard family whose next generation where soft twats living off the name) and you were okay.
The Briggs and McDonaghs teamed up in the 80s. Got one of them nicked in a scrap. Threw a flurry of punches in self defense then backed off then stood my ground when in view of the coppers. Got swarmed but the copper in the car knew me from Northowram footy.