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The Post Office And The Barber's Shop.

North Road c1955
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The white coated figure to the right is the barber Willie Jenks,standing outside his shop.He slicked back his hair with Brylcream and specialised in short back and sides.A visit could incur moments of pain from his close cutting mechanical clippers.
A little further away on the right is the original village Post Office, in use from the nineteenth century until relatively recently.In the 1950's the Postmaster was Mr Vincent Walker who stood stiffly upright behind his counter and with distinguished grey hair and a carefully modulated slow gravelly voice was a figure of some gravitas who exuded an aura of his importance in village life.

Written by James Wroe. To send James Wroe a private message, click here.

A memory of Kirkburton in West Yorkshire shared on Wednesday, 17th February 2010.

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