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Erdington magazine The magazine for the Erdington Business Improvement District March 2020 Great value shopping in Erdington! CakeBox_Erdington_A5_AD_v2.pdf 1 25/02/2020 11:01 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Hello, Trutex School wear, There is a lot of talk Printerwise, and most about the decline of our recently, specialist high streets, but I am bakery business Cake happy to report that here Box, all deciding to in Erdington, businesses invest in Erdington. Contents are telling us that the More Glamour 4 town centre is thriving, Historically ,this is how Velo Birmingham 7 and many reported good high streets grow and Hub 109 9 Christmas trading. thrive, with businesses Asher’s Portaits 11 investing and shoppers Cube Spring Fair 13 Andy Spencer Art 14 In a perverse way, shopping. To quote a Exhibition Erdington, as a centre to long standing tag line of Wilton Market 16 provide local needs, is ours, ‘Shop Local, Read Easy 20 very often ‘under the Erdington Library 22 Shop Erdington!’ St Barnabas church 23 radar’ because we are Town centre guide 26 not reliant on the many In addition to great value national retail names that shopping, the town are shutting up shop, centre is supported by Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained giving a great chance for events at St Barnabas within this publication is correct, Erdington Town Centre Partnership our many small church, Erdington library, cannot be held responsible for any errors independent retailers to and the Oikos cafe. or omissions contained within. No part of this publication may be reproduced shine. without the express consent of the publishers, including any advertisement See inside for more originated as part of the production We have seen a growth details of all the good process. of new businesses here stuff going on in Manuscripts, photographs and other materials submitted to the publication are in the last few months Erdington. sent at the owner’s risk. Neither the with the likes of Borshch Happy shopping, company nor its agents accept any liability for loss or damage. Some of the Electric, Curtain House, Terry. products illustrated in this magazine may be representative of similar products that Published by the may be available in retail stores and any Erdington Business Improvement District stock illustrations are subject to availabil- (BID) ity. 0121 306 4270 Ext: 340 [email protected] ‘‘Erdington’ magazine is published on behalf of Erdington Town Centre Partner- www.erdingtonhighstreet.co.uk ship who do not necessarily endorse www.facebook.com/ErdingtonTownCentre either the views expressed or editorial content. Additionally, Erdington Town Distribution: This issue will produce 10,000 copies which Centre Partnership is not responsible for will be distributed to homes and businesses across the performance of goods or services Erdington, and at local reference points, libraries provided by advertisers. Furthermore, implementation of any ideas or activities leisure centres etc. To order your free copy call or email. suggested in this magazine are entirely at 3 Hair and beauty store expands - across the street! By Zahid Mahmood, Proprietor, Glamour Touch Erdington is great shopping centre however there were no Hair and Cosmetic shops originally, which we researched in 2011. Therefore, in March 2011 we opened a Hair and Cosmetic shop known as Glamour Hair and Cosmetics. We have been in this industry for nearly 10 years and can now say we’re very experienced in providing human hair and Our products consist of cosmetics, wigs to the community for all these human hair, wigs, electrical items along years. Not only are we known to have with makeup and accessories. 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