Moonlighter you wouldn't think he would find the time to frame people.
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Moonlighter you wouldn't think he would find the time to frame people.
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Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
Dylan Thomas
Anyone with a name like Herbert has to be suspect
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
Dylan Thomas
I've been told he consorted with lots of prostitutes and was a racist.
He liked to play the sporting gentleman and boxing enthusiast, as when he was pictured with world boxing champ, Hogan Kid Bassey at Stanley House youth club in Toxteth, but behind their backs, he called the coloured folk from around there, N.....s!!
The prostitute connection features saliently in the Kelly case
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
Dylan Thomas
If you consult the book `Off The Cuff` by Swasie Turner, he makes reference to Bert Balmer. I believe he was famous across the world in Police circles for starting a section in the Liverpool Police called "The Commando's" - a sort of undercover forerunner to the OSD.
I was talking with some other friends recently about the shop in Mill Lane, West Derby. It seems my Dad was mistaken when he told me we had been served by Bert Balmer. It now appears that we were indeed served by a Mr Balmer but that Mr Balmer was none other than Jack Balmer, who once played football (inside left I think) for Liverpool FC and whose trade outside football was as a plumber.
Christopher T. George
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A plumber hey
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
Dylan Thomas
What is it that you would like to know about Bert Balmer? I never knew there was so much interest in him? He died in 1970 from a massive hear attack. Please let me know specific questions and I will do my best to answer any I can. I am his grand-daughter and I am just as interested to know anything I can about the cases he was involved in.
Im March 1949 he came to my house with a few heavies and he held me by the throat and slapped me around the face with a leather gloved hand. I was 14 years old.
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