Re: Hope your Mum's well, mate Nearly every shop that shuts down in Hoyland and The Common seams to re-open as a hairdressers/beauty salon/barbers! There are now three barbers in Hoyland town center! Hair must grow quick round here...there must be fertilizer in the water
Re: Hope your Mum's well, mate Be visiting me mam god rest her soul next month, and I think I'll make a day of it if weathers decent and have a few beers round Elsecar. Is the pitch and putt still going? I once threw my club across the road as a 10 year old. Was marched all way back home to Cobcar Lane by my dad who had hold of my ear (the one that Pete sliced).
Re: Hope your Mum's well, mate Yep it's still on now the park cafe has re-opened. If its at the weekend you might catch me partaking in a beer or 2 in the Market or Cricket Club
Re: Hope your Mum's well, mate Ernest sylvester,, that's a blast from the past. I started going there with my dad when I was a bairn and his shop was on the common. He did a nice line in driving coats from the back and "ahem, something for weekend sir". It always puzzled me why men would need chewing gum only at weekends.
Re: Hope your Mum's well, mate It was seriously like that! I went in once and asked for an Ian Banks. No lie, got one n'all.
Re: Hope your Mum's well, mate I've got it in my head that he looked liked Tony jacklin.. Am I right?
Re: Hope your Mum's well, mate Hang on, googling.... A bit yeah, more coiffured. Shop was off Stead Lane. He had one of those big old valve radios with illuminated dial and a walnut veneer, a beauty. Tuned into Hallam or something local.
Re: Hope your Mum's well, mate He was on the common when I first started going, I think it was in, what became the fishing shop, but I could be wrong. Then he moved into his front room on fitzwilliam/chapel street? Always talking about his lad who was training to be a teacher or popping into the back for a chat with Maisie. Slowest barber I've ever known. God knows how ever made any money, 2 haircuts per hour if you were lucky. If you weren't stood outside his shop, first thing Saturday morning, Saturday morning was a write off.
Re: Hope your Mum's well, mate I think it was just further up and is now Grays coaches. You had to go right through to the back past rows of clothes on hangers if I remember right. Odd place.
Re: Hope your Mum's well, mate Proper glad I went to page two of the threads for an update on Dale Jennings. I now know the hairdressing scene of Hoyland in the 1980s in the time it took to take a dump. Cheers lads
Re: Hope your Mum's well, mate Barbers, not hairdressers!! There's a method to the madness if you follow it closely. The challenge, if you chose to accept it, is to credibly and logically steer this thread back onto the subject of Dale Jennings and his imminent signing for the Reds. Do you still have that fantastic taste in music?
Re: Hope your Mum's well, mate You're welcome Ernest wouldn't do the "tennis ball" shaves on the short haircuts of any kids either cos he said it made em look like yobs. Bit more info for you to enjoy
Re: Hope your Mum's well, mate I used to go to Freds down Donny Road , half moon neck, good at doing sides and back of the head but because he specialised in old mens hair he didn't have much idea how to do the top of your head