General Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Davy Crockett at the Alamo and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid somewhere in Bolivia. All fought against overwhelming odds in the days of the Old West .... and died. Meanwhile in the Old West (of England) two Pilton boys stood alone against the might of the Bradiford Gang and survived to win The Battle of Manning's Pit
Cousins Brian and John Norman recite a poem filled with memories of an epic battle for control of their 1940s countryside childhood playground in Manning's Pit outside Barnstaple.
