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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.
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.
Birmingham Boys (also known as the Brummagem [1] Boys or the Brum Boys) were a street gang whose power extended from the North of England to London's underworld, between the 1910s and 1930s. They lost control of the South East racecourses to the Sabini gang. [2] [3] [4] In modern times they gained recognition due to the TV series Peaky Blinders.
The show premiered in 2016 and ran for six seasons, concluding in August 2022, just a few months after Peaky Blinders had its series finale. In real life, Finn is the younger brother of his Peaky ...
Read on for all the intel on Peaky Blinders' real-life locations, whether you want to visit Charlie Strong's scrap yard, explore Tommy's posh estate grounds, or stand in the exact spot where Grace ...
Billy or William Kimber may also refer to: Billy Kimber (gangster), real-life head of the Birmingham Boys Billy Kimber, fictional character in Peaky Blinders (TV series) , based on the real life Billy Kimber.
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 ...
"Billy Boys", also titled "The Billy Boys", [1] is a loyalist song from Glasgow, sung to the tune of "Marching Through Georgia". [1] It originated in the 1920s as the signature song of one of the Glasgow razor gangs led by Billy Fullerton [ 2 ] and later became viewed to reflect the long-running sectarian religious hatred directed by some ...