As well as being the most prolific executioner he was also considered the most efficient having been responsible for the swiftest execution on record. It took place at Strangeways Prison in Manchester in 1951. On the 8th May of that year James Inglis was led from his cell and pronounced dead just 7 seconds later.

The position of executioner was unsalaried and Albert, along with his predecessors, was paid per job. In his spare time he kept a pub, curiously named 'The Poor Struggler', with his wife Anne just outside of Manchester.

Albert was committed to his work and sought the most humane and dignified means in ending the lives of all those he executed. Never the showman he refused all offers of TV appearances and viewed his role as a necessary part in the machinery of justice but one that should be performed with dispassionate respect.

Albert resigned in early 1956 over a dispute about payment and died in 1992, having been the man who carried out more judicial sentences of death than any British executioner in history.

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