Roberts, Kenneth. Captain of the Push, when a Larrikin chief ruled the Rocks
Roberts, Kenneth. Captain of the Push, when a Larrikin chief ruled the Rocks
£12.00
Melbourne, Australia, Lansdowne Press 1963
8vo, 137pp. numerous illustrations incl. photographic views of the back streets of Sidney at the end of the 19th century, cloth, dw.
Covers the life of Larry Foley captain of the Push. The Rocks Push was a notorious larrikin gang, which dominated The Rocks area of Sydney from the 1870s to the end of the 1890s. In its day it was referred to as The Push
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