Then In 1926, before the tram tracks were removed from Pipers Row, this would have been the view across Pipers Row awaiting the the patrons emerging from the “Barley Mow”. It shows the corner of Castle Street taken up by the Hardware Merchants Langley Shaw. Whose perimeter walls are […]
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Hair Care, 1940s Style as I recall it.
THE BARBERS! A pre-war child’s definition.. A shop or front parlour, where a parent (usually father) took a boy to be almost scalped, and to indulge himself in a masochistic act of being singed across the back of the head with a flaming taper. This practice went on at least […]
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