1st. Barbers - Page 3

flashy · 19-01-2010, 07:47

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Originally Posted by oldclaytonian

Showing my age - saw Norman recently when I was over but shop was busy. I remember him starting with Jack and went to him when he moved to Whalley Road.

i used to take my lad to him when he was little...why is it most people in Clayton refer to him as 'Nutty Norman'?

cashman · 19-01-2010, 09:44

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Originally Posted by flashy

i used to take my lad to him when he was little...why is it most people in Clayton refer to him as 'Nutty Norman'?

Probably cos he was from Clayton?

flashy · 19-01-2010, 10:18

aye possibly

jaysay · 19-01-2010, 16:13

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Originally Posted by cashman

was it not across abbey st on corner Taggy? just a mens back then, i used to go yon, cos chinny was the only one who used to section me mop as it was a bitch to cut right.

What do you mean WAS a bitch to cut cashy

jaysay · 19-01-2010, 16:17

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Originally Posted by Taggy

I think you could be right Cashy, my memory seems a bit grey, i know it was only a smallish place, then he moved and opened plus two, as you say it was just a mens barbers back then!

Best Regards - Taggy

I used to go to Gordons before he opened Plus Two, think he changed the name before moving across the road, maybe wrong

Taggy · 19-01-2010, 19:19

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Originally Posted by jaysay

I used to go to Gordons before he opened Plus Two, think he changed the name before moving across the road, maybe wrong

Got me thinking about its location now, what is there now, it wasn't a big place was it, i really cant place it exactly now!

Best Regards - Taggy

jaysay · 20-01-2010, 11:30

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Originally Posted by Taggy

Got me thinking about its location now, what is there now, it wasn't a big place was it, i really cant place it exactly now!

Best Regards - Taggy

I can't help there Taggy, its so long since I've been into Accy, but it was on the corner across from where he moved to

Reamer · 20-01-2010, 11:33

I used to go to Joe's in Lodge St. Quick Nick is right, he used to do me and my mate in about 5 minutes flat. His 'salon' was in the front room of a terraced house and as the room filled up you could see Joe speed up. You could always tell which kids had been to Joe's, they turned up at school next day with a bonehead haircut and a plaster on one ear !

Alan Gilmartin · 21-01-2010, 06:21

Are you sure it was a haircut you had.

Reamer · 21-01-2010, 12:28

Yeh, 'salon' probably isn't the right word for a barber's in the sixties. Cropshop'll do

Tony Ireland · 21-01-2010, 14:18

In the fifties my first visit to the barbers was the shop at the corner of albion st and king st I don't know if the shop had a name but the barber was Harry Clemmy

cashman · 21-01-2010, 14:40

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Originally Posted by Reamer

I used to go to Joe's in Lodge St. Quick Nick is right, he used to do me and my mate in about 5 minutes flat. His 'salon' was in the front room of a terraced house and as the room filled up you could see Joe speed up. You could always tell which kids had been to Joe's, they turned up at school next day with a bonehead haircut and a plaster on one ear !

thats true but he was a top bloke,twas in 50s when i went to joes, always found him funny.

tosh · 21-01-2010, 15:45

jim whats on whalley road just below the railway bridge

jelly baby · 21-01-2010, 16:45

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Originally Posted by annie59

This was Norman Scott's at 281 Blackburn Road. I lived next door and used to help him fill the cigarette machine outside the shop putting 3d and 6d in the change slots. He never did pay me but I was only 5 or 6.

Scott's was between the butchers and Mrs Towlers shop if memory serves. We used both these shops and also Mr Lunt the confectioners. I think my dad went to Norman Scott.

MovedtoBolton · 21-01-2010, 19:39

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Originally Posted by Taggy

Yeah that was Kemp and Smiths, its still a barbers now! My first was a chap called Billy Wild on Nuttall street...we called him "Wild Billy" I also used Baccicullupo (Spelling?) at bottom of Warner Street, and then went to Gordon Kenyon's who later on opened Plus Two on Abbey Street...i'm trying to recall exactly where Gordon's first place was..was it on Bank Street or near there?....only a small place!!

Best Regards - Taggy

Kemp & Smiths was deffo on the same block as Babyland, between Babyland and the sweet shop / newsagents. A guy called Gary did the blokes downstairs and the ladies salon was upstairs. As a little kid I never knew where to look as he always had pics of topless models on every wall! Gary always had the same same haircut as the posing model in the style book lol.