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Camkin was born in Willesden, London.
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Bill Camkin
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During the Second World War he acted as secretary-manager of
Camkin ran a billiards hall on John Bright Street, Birmingham known as This hall was used for a number of World Snooker Championship matches from 1927 to 1930, including the 1927 and 1928 finals. Camkin himself was the referee for the 1927 final. In 1928 it was the first venue outside London to be used for the final stages of the English Amateur Championship.
Camkin was appointed honorary managing-director of in September 1939, and when West. H. Grady died in 1941, took over secretarial duties in addition.
Team manager George Liddell had resigned on the outbreak of war, and Camkin, together with trainer George Blackburn, oversaw team affairs until November 1944, when Ted Goodier took over as caretaker manager. Although the Football League was suspended for the duration of hostilities, Birmingham competed in regional league and cup matches.
Camkin remained on the club"s board of directors until ill-health forced his retirement in 1951, when he was elected as vice-president of the club Camkin died at his home in Leamington, Warwickshire on 26 April 1956 aged 61.
In the 1970s he owned a string of travel agencies (Camkin Travel) in the Midlands that were eventually sold to the Lunn Poly/Thomson Group.
