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This week in 1937

Toffs and Toughs by Jimmy Sime

A group of local boys look on with curiosity and. Another image from the same reel also appeared in a photo essay published in magazine. It went on to be widely reproduced as the perfect example of the British class system, though it is thought the name attributed to it, ‘Toffs and Toughs', is a more modern attribution.

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