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They held "control" for 30 years until 1920, when a larger gang, the Birmingham Boys, led by Billy Kimber, overtook them. Although they had disappeared by the 1920s, the name "Peaky Blinders" became synonymous slang for any street gang in Birmingham. In 2013, the name was reused for a BBC Television series entitled Peaky Blinders.
Real Peaky Blinders: Billy Kimber, the Birmingham Gang and the Racecourse Wars of the 1920s. Redditch, Worcestershire, England: Brewin. ISBN 9781858585307. OCLC 907320468. Chinn, Carl (2019). Peaky Blinders: The Real Story: The new true history of Birmingham's most notorious gangs. London: John Blake Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781789461725.
William "Billy" Kimber (played by Charlie Creed-Miles) was an English gangster and head of the Birmingham Boys, the main enemy of Thomas Shelby and the Peaky Blinders. He ran most of the legal tracks outside of London, leading to tensions between Kimber and the Peaky Blinders, who looked to expand their control into inner city London.
Read on for all the intel on Peaky Blinders' real-life locations, ... The location also hosted the bloody showdown between Thomas and rival gangster Billy Kimber (Charlie Creed-Miles).
[3] [4] The first series concludes on 3 December 1919—"Black Star Day", the event where the Peaky Blinders plan to take over Billy Kimber's betting pitches at the Worcester Races. The second series has the Peaky Blinders expand their criminal organisation in the "South and North while maintaining a stronghold in their Birmingham heartland". [5]
The series Peaky Blinders followed Tommy Shelby from being a Birmingham street gangster to a stint in Parliament and back again. It covered the rise and fall of the Shelby family from the years ...
The sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders may have ended back in 2022, but the story isn't quite over for Tommy Shelby and his Birmingham gang.Rather than concluding their run on television ...
Tommy gathers the Peaky Blinders and the Lees to take on Billy Kimber's men at the tracks, but Billy Kimber catches the Peaky Blinders off guard and outnumbered by confronting them at home. Freddie helps the Peaky Blinders by bringing out a machine gun from the stolen weapons, but Ada jumps into the middle of the standoff trying to bring peace.