Hairdressers Of The Eighties
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Dennis Gents Hair Stylist, note the razor blade sign
Ron’s Gents Hairdressers, Three Colts Lane, Bethnal Green, is still there but has changed from ‘Hairdresser’ to ‘Barber.’
His & Hers, ‘Executive Mood’ and ‘Avant Garde Mood’ hairstyles offered
June’s Ladies Hair Stylist. STE was the code for Stepney Green, letters were replaced by numbers around 1966.
Dave & Syd Strong, Gent’s Hairdresser
Gent’s Hairdresser moving into Ladies’ Hairdressing
Gent’s Hair Stylist, Puma Court, Spitalfields, run by Kyriacos Cleovoulou from 1962 until 2005.
Apples, Hair Stylist
Peter, Individual Gents Hair Stylist
The Saloon, customers peering out from the left of the window
Gentlemen’s Hairdressing Salon, Carter Lane, City of London
Mario’s Men’s Hairstylist
Hairdresser at 10 Laystall Street, Clerkenwell, with a plaque commemorating Giuseppe Mazzini as ‘the apostle of modern democracy inspired young Italy with the ideal of independence, unity and regeneration of his country.’
The Pleasant Gent’s Hairdresser is still going in Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell
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My first haircut sitting on a board between the two s of a chair opposite the London hospital Whitechapel rd .
The barber used the clippers and O hated it so much I cried and my mum
Was never able to take me there again .
I was about five .
There’s something wonderfully unpolished about these old hairdresser shopfronts. “Executive Mood” and “Avant Garde Mood” sound gloriously eighties, but I also love how each place had such a distinct personality. Modern high streets somehow feel a little more anonymous by comparison.
Such incredible, rich, astonishing photos, that brought up childhood memories for me. Thank you.
My father had a Women’s’ hairdressing salon in the 1950’s – 60’s, called Adrian Brook, and then Dad switched to selling men’s wigs in Brompton Street.
Very sadly I have no photos of his hairdressing shop, but I remember going there reluctantly as a kid to have my hair cut!
Actually, this is a bit of totally lost London.
They are all Turkish laundering sites now.
Rather sad! I remember when I used to have to sit on a board above the seat!
And I must have been 20, before I finally twigged about wanting something for the weekend .. by which time, Boots was cheaper!