00:00 In 1945 my father and my brother came down from Tunbridge Wells, they had a hairdressers
00:09 there and he wanted to see what it was like to come to Hastings.
00:13 My brother climbed in the window because there was bomb damage and my father looked at the
00:18 building and liked it and bought the place.
00:21 When my brother was 15 he came in the shop with my dad and then when I was 15, because
00:27 I was just born then in 1945, when I was 15 I came in the shop and we've been there ever
00:35 since right up to now.
00:37 64 years I've been in the shop, our wives joined us, they've been lovely, they've been
00:42 helping us, they've been in the ladies side, we've had all the family doing ladies hairdressing
00:47 and gents hairdressing, we've been very, very lucky.
00:51 I haven't had enough because I'm going to do a few more haircuts outside, not in the
00:55 shop anymore, this is the end of the shop, so it's been here since 1945.
01:03 We've having a soiree, we've got customers and family, loads of family here and we've
01:08 got customers come in and everything else so it's been a really lovely day.
01:13 It's very emotional, very emotional, it's lovely, lovely, all the family are lovely.
01:19 One of our family looking for a parking space.
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