In the frame this week are past hairstyles from short back and sides to perms and sets - you can almost smell the hairspray and hair cream in these atmospheric shots from our archives.
1. A continental atmosphere had been brought to Elizabeth's hairdressing salon in a 16th century building in Mere Street, Diss in May 1957. The new lighting and décor in the drying room gave the effect of it being in the sunshine, while a Venetian scene from a 'window' on one wall added further to the modern ambience.
2. Sixteen-year-old Barry Howard, an apprentice at his father's barber's shop in Botolph Street, Norwich, had just won second place in a National Hairdressers' Federation competition in Bury St Edmunds in October, 1958.
3. Students at work at the Dereham Academy of Ladies Hairdressing in the town's Labour Hall in January, 1960. The Academy was the first of its kind in East Anglia and was started by Mrs Patricia Beck of Beetley. The students took a concentrated 24 weeks' course instead of the usual three-year apprenticeship.
4. A hairdresser is hard at work at the Evelyn Cross salon in Halesworth in one of the three new cubicles which have just been added in December, 1961, just in time for Christmas.
5. In the first of two pictures of Earlham Hairdressing Salons, Colman Road, Norwich, proprietor Donald J Boore attends to a young customer. The men's section in the down stairs room had been unchanged for 40 years when our picture was taken in October, 1966.
6. The two top floor rooms, however, had just been transformed into a new women's department. Mr Boore believed that women had never been more conscious of their hair, many had their own money to spend and now visited the hairdresser once a fortnight when it used to be a perm once a year.
7. The well-known Nigel Alexandre hairdressing business had just opened a new salon in Norwich's Orford Place in August, 1967. In six years the company had grown to the point where it owned 12 salons and employed 70 staff. Business partners Nigel Matthews and Alexander Irvine explained that their aim was to keep up with the latest hairdressing fashions from London, Paris and elsewhere.
8. The ladies salon at the Shave Centre, Magdalen Street, Norwich is full of happy customers in early December, 1974 – perhaps a new hairdo for Christmas?
9. Hairdresser Enzo Casale had just converted his basement in St Vedast Street, Norwich into a plush men's salon in July, 1976. It was decorated in gold and green with pine-clad walls and pine staircase to match the women's salon upstairs and boasted three basins, thick padded armchairs and new stereo equipment. The most fashionable cut for men was still collar length, showing part of the ear and brushed back with a high parting. Mr Enzo started his career shaving in a barber's shop near Naples at the age of 12 and had lived in England since he was 20.
10. Enterprising John Ashford was trimming overheads by putting his barber shop on four wheels in June, 1992. He claimed it would cost him £200 to rent a shop in King's Lynn so he had decided to start his snipping business in a converted bus.
If you recognise anyone in the pictures or would like to tell us morabout them you can email rosemarydixon@archant.co.uk.
To get a copy of one of our old photographs, visit www.edp24.co.uk/buyaphoto or telephone Diane Townsend Mon-fri on 01603 77244 the photos will be available on the website from Monday afternoon.
You can also share your old photographs with us via our new Facebook group called Norwich Remembers, as well as getting an extra peak into our archives with our daily posts showing the history of the Norwich area.
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