There was a barbers in Bournemouth Called Ray’s(who was actually the remaining live relative of John Merrick, the Elephant Man). After you told him how you wanted it, he usually said, “yeah, I can do that, and you’ll look like right dickhead”. My mate Tim went in and asked for a TinTin type haircut. Ray said “you’ll look more TitTit”.
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I used to take the kids to a Syrian guy called Yazal, £4 a cut. I called him the Butcher of Bond St.
He used to cut hair in the army and claimed he could do a cut in four minutes. Like that’s something to be proud of.
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Very well! Never went though.
I think he retired well into his 90s.
I used to go to Fred’s for a flat top.
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The long-gone Colin Stewart in Headingley. Boys cut for £1.50. I used to get a flat top. It appeared in a Times piece about the dying art of barbers in 2008. How times change.
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Very vivid memory of being sat in Grantham ‘The Razors Edge’ for my flat top refrresh ( slightly more fasiohn than the other barbers as they did flat tops & was a younger (mid 20’s mullet) barber)
Barber asks him if he wants a beard trim & he said loudly ’ the wife likes it to tickle her thighs’
The 80s
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Fred had a special flat-top comb with a spirit level in it!
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There was a barber where I grew up who everyone knew as “mad harry” despite the name everyone went there and no matter what u asked for you came out with a flat top 
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Similar to where I grew up, there was a barbers near us. Les Toombs was his name. Decor hadn’t changed since the 60s. He only knew one haircut, the short back and sides scalping with the stinging alcohol splash on the back of the neck coup de grace.
8 years old and we all looked like we were off to the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940
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My son saw LTJ Bukem at BoomTown, he loved it. I’ve seen this picture alongside a story of him playing a set that revolutionised everything - I wonder if this was recorded.
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Pépé le Pew ?