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Mid 50's. My 1st. barbers shop was Len's (I think) at the bottom of Pendle St. He had a big cyst on his head, you remember that as a kid. I always remember going in there on Friday night, pay night, and sitting around the edge of the room reading old Beanos and Dandys. You would count the blokes in already and wait your turn. This went out the window as soon as an adult came in cause they bumped you straight away!!!!!! Proper barbers chair with a small plank across for us nippers! :):D:cool:

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I can vaguely remember going to a barber's on Whalley Road ... somewhere between the Load and the bridge over the cut ... think the guy was Italian. The one that I remember a little more clearly was the guy who cut hair on Lower Barnes St., just down from the Forts. I know I used to hate going .... that's probably why I look like I do in my profile pic;):D

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billy basigalupo whalley road tom dawson lower barnes st

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That's it Basigalupo .... it was hovering at the edge of my brain .... and Tom Dawson, yes.

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Roy Kayley's on Garbett Street...he did a mean short-back-and-sides. As soon as I got a bit more fashion conscious, around 1963, started going to Crawshaw's on Abbey Street. You could get a then-very fashionable square cut there, but if you were a kid, you had to bring a note from your mum or dad, as so many irate parents had turned up to complain that the barber hadn't give their son a "proper haircut" (ie - a short-back-and-sides). :D

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my first was "Joe Simpsons" on Lodge Street, quick nick everyone called him, but a top guy, when young i always wondered what "Need Something For The Weekend" meant, cos he always asked the men.:D

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This has made me chuckle. I had the job of taking my brother to the barbers on Blackburn Road. Can't remember any names but I think he might have repaired umbrellas too.

Our kid hated his short back and sides but I would have been in trouble if he'd have had anything different. Look after number one!

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He was a pimp:eek::D!!!!!

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Possibly but it would be very lucrative in accy,:D

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used to go to "Savins"..bottom of willows lane area, then cross road to Ivans....think Savin learnt him his trade

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Used to go to Archibold at the bottom of water street,it was inbetween burnley rd
and water st. man and wife team,seem to think she was called Rene,??

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Me & my brothers went to Billy Faulds on Whalley Rd Clayton, inbetween Load of Mischief & Grayhound, Billy Basigaloupo's brother had a barbers shop in Warner st, last shop in arcade, anybody remember it .They both had the barber's pole outside. I remember the plank very well.

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I always went to Jim Kershaws (his daughter is a member on here) when he packed up I started going to Chinnies in Accy, Plus Two I think it was called, The other half does mine now, every month a number 2 cut

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Derek Wynn's in Ossy.

It was just before my third birthday, and I was taken by my dad.

I remember the electric trimmer tickling my neck.

Mum wasn't too happy, because I came back like a toddler army recruit, but with a Brylcreemed quiff.

:D

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Them were the days Rindi, Brylcreem, used to have a huge tub of the stuff on the bathroom windowsill, when I think back you'd wash your hair then whack some Brylcreem on, happy days:D

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Maybe he should have left enough in the back for a Brylcreemed DA;):D

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I'll bet Rindi doesn't know what a DA is Eric:D

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it was swiffs ive for got were it was but my grandad took me there when i was small and you came out with no hair left on your head

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them were the days when roy use to ask you if you wanted any yakum on and he did your hair on top like a ice cream cone.That feeling when you walked outside and the air got to it and it stiffened up like a brush.lol

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the barbers i used to go to was by babyland toy shop i think it was called kemps it was quite trendy for the early 60s

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Same as beechy, Rene Archibold's. I always remember it as being on Abbey St., roughly where the CAB is now.

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There was also Jack Thornton on Barnes street where I was made to go. No matter what you wanted it was short back and sides with a bit of opera thrown in!

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jack been finishd 40 yrs norman his apprentice still going strong did 40 yrs in nov

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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.

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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.

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thats the one, opposite what used to be Catlows.

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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

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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.:);)

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Used to go to a place on Abbey St just around the corner from the bottom of Plantation St. called Jacks. When I think back I think he was a bit too friendly to the young lads?? I also remember the brylcream dispensers at the Accy baths, a good hand full for a couple of pennies.

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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

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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'?

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Probably cos he was from Clayton?:D

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aye possibly ;)

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What do you mean WAS a bitch to cut cashy:D:D

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

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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

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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:confused:

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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 !

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Are you sure it was a haircut you had.

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

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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

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

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jim whats on whalley road just below the railway bridge

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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.

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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.

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Rene Archbold was the daughter of the house.

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Jacz studio top end of Clayton, Whalley road , is the shop where Billy Bacigalupo had his barbars shop, so its still doing hair. We went to Bill Faulds across from the top club, on Whalley Rd, sold French letters as well as individual fags,

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Alan, can you remember when that shop called Maddy's was owned in the early 50s by Joe Brady. He had some connection to Clayton Harriers. My hubby used to go in buy hot buttered muffins.

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Yea Irene, The brady's had the shop till the mid 60s, Mrs Brady then worked as a nursing sister at Brockhall when I was there a lovely woman, They lived at Langho then, their son Peter died young, Ann is still around my dad said.

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my first barber was armondo's on whalley road in accy center just up from marys music


my friends used to use a fella in clayton called nutty norman

he got the name nutty norman because no matter what you asked for everyone got the same short hair cut which he acheived by going feckin mental with a pair of clippers