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Donald Hodgen

The gang began to gather outside the Buffs Club on the corner of the Crumlin Road and Century Street, where their numbers were swollen by other young men from in and around the Shankill.

Grove House, Harrogate

Built in 1745-54 as World's End Inn, and the first house in Yorkshire to have gas lighting and heating, today it is a convalescence and old aged persons rest home, owned and operated by the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOB).

Holmwood, Redditch

In 1925 the house was sold to the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes before the town council run Redditch Development Corporation purchased the property, for the headquarters of its organisation turning Redditch into a "New Town".

Johnny Adair

The gang regularly congregated outside the Buffs Club on the corner of the Crumlin Road and Century Street, where their numbers were swollen by other young men from in and around the Shankill.

Mo Courtney

In the late 1970s and early 1980s Courtney was part in a gang of teenagers from Belfast's Shankill Road and nearby districts who spent their days near the Buffs Club on Century Street in the nearby Oldpark district.

Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes

However, the Royal Warrant Act required any organisation using the 'Royal' prefix to register with the Lord Chamberlain's Office and to desist from using the title if permission was not granted.

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In 1926, Lord Alston succeeded in persuading the Order to purchase Grove House, Harrogate, for use as an orphanage to which every active member contributed a Ha'penny (half of one old penny).

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