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Erdington

My dad was a big fan of Tootal shirts, sports tops etc. Had forgotten about that brand. I like the "See our windows" in the advert. You used to be able to go to a shop and see a mass of items crammed into window displays. Hence why 'window shopping' was so popular. Window displays are quite boring by comparison today, with their minimalist selective items on display.
 
My dad was a big fan of Tootal shirts, sports tops etc. Had forgotten about that brand. I like the "See our windows" in the advert. You used to be able to go to a shop and see a mass of items crammed into window displays. Hence why 'window shopping' was so popular. Window displays are quite boring by comparison today, with their minimalist selective items on display.
Trendy stuff back then:

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This picture on Flashback entitled Uncle Walter and The Erdington Cycling ano Social Club in 1947.

“Walter Frank Quiney was about twenty-one or twenty-two when he appeared in or took these pictures of a group of friends that belonged to the Erdington Cycling and Social Club. It was 1947 and many of the young men are wearing either army surplus clothes or even their own battledress stripped of insignia…”
 
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