Did you ever live in Parson Cross? (Part 2)

[neilf]

Ena Hadfield had the hairdressing shop on Chaucer. She lived above the shop with her husband Brian. They used to live on Fulmere Rd before moving to the shop. Had children called Wayne and Kelly.

[okismoki]

Hi Disley

Yup those pics are mine

Recognise anybody?

 

John Mayor is the one in the middle,I believe his mum,Hilda,has recently passed away.

[purple]

I remember the first time I went in Davison’s on Buchanan Rd. It was a bit like the shop in Harry Potter that sells Magic Wands. It was fitted with ebony and teak effect drawers stacked high at the back, and anything you wanted was in one of these, it’s just that nobody knew which one. The little label slotted into the metal housing on the front of each drawer told only what was in it three years ago, and gave no clue about today’s contents.

There was all kinds of cloth and ribbons hanging from the ceiling and if your mum moved a few paces away to look at a knitting pattern, then you could very well lose her in the mist, so you clung on to one hand for dear life. Every time you went in, it was like an Aladdin’s Cave adventure. I remember one occasion when my mum had gone in for some darning wool, and we came out with a snake belt and a set of doily mats for the table.

The staff were very friendly, if not a little patronising, but as a kid you always felt you were in the way. Wherever you stood someone would soon be asking you to move, and they never spoke to you, they spoke to your mum about you, as though you weren’t there.

“Has Stephen started school yet?” (I was eight)

 

Even in the 60s it seemed like a very old fashioned place and was part of a disappearing lifestyle, a throwback to rationing and powdered eggs, but there was a level of comfort in its familiarity. I never get that same comfort from Poundland

 

They had a sign in the window which read

 

If what you want you cannot see

ask our assistants or ask me

to fill your need is our small aim

if satisfied you'll come again.

[Bushbaby]

They had a sign in the window which read

 

If what you want you cannot see

ask our assistants or ask me

to fill your need is our small aim

if satisfied you'll come again.

 

Fan-Tastic!!

You don't get slogans like that today

 

We uses to use their shop doorway to do the "Harry Worth"

(If you don't know what that means ask your mum or dad)

[Chap BLADE]

Ena Hadfield had the hairdressing shop on Chaucer. She lived above the shop with her husband Brian. They used to live on Fulmere Rd before moving to the shop. Had children called Wayne and Kelly.

 

 

I knew Brian and Ena well from Beagle in late 70`s early 80s .The original ladies hairdresses was owned by mother of a lad I was at school with cant rememeber her first name but surname was Anderson

[Dougi]

I used to have my "straggle" haircut by Ena. I can still smell the perm solution from all the old ladies she was doing at the same time. We used to call them cauliflower heads.

[bowler123]

I lived on Holgate Crescent from around 1946 to 1962 when I got married. I used to go to Colley Secondary School till 1955.

[TheBatt]

I knew Brian and Ena well from Beagle in late 70`s early 80s .The original ladies hairdresses was owned by mother of a lad I was at school with cant rememeber her first name but surname was Anderson

 

I think her name was Sylvia or Sybil but not 100% sure

[Bushbaby]

I think her name was Sylvia or Sybil but not 100% sure

 

Sylvia was the lady at Plummers.

I once wagged school and hid in Fogg's cubby hole, the one half way down the alley where he kept the returns. All I had to keep me going was 5 Park Drive tipped and a bottle of mandacola. Mind you, I slept well

[Chap BLADE]

I think her name was Sylvia or Sybil but not 100% sure

 

Sybil was about right I think