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Hairdressers

Rushden Echo, 10th August 1917

THE RUSHDEN HAIRDRESSERS' ASSOCIATION

Give NOTICE that on and after AUGUST 20th
the minimum charges will be as follow:

Shaving
2d.

Haircutting
4d.

Boys' Haircutting
3d.

Beard Trimming
1½d.

Shampooing
4d. and 6d.

Singeing
3d.

Razor Setting
4d. and 6d.

Rushden Echo, 1st January 1909
The Noted Shaving and Hairdressing Saloon and tobacconist’s shop – under entirely new management.
Choice selection of cigars,
cigarettes and tobaccos.
Wm Chettle, 24 Higham-road, Rushden.
1910 advert in Phillipson's Directory
1910
Porter B Smith also did knife, scissor and razor sharpening, umbrella, jewellery and china repairs and engraving.

He died in 1912.
Rushden Argus advert 1903 - tells us he called this the 'Klondyke Hair-cutting Saloon'

C J Cooke - two adverts from 1922

1934
The Misses Tall 1934

A J Short
1938 advert
Maison Constance
Maison Constance
This shop (left) was a ladies hairdressers, at the corner of Irchester Road and W'boro Road. It was taken over by a flooring company in the 1990s, but soon closed and the site was sold, and redeveloped as a block of flats.

Snippers
Snippers
Snippers hairdressers at the corner of Newton Road and Pratt Road closed in 2007 - formerly Putnam's Grocery.

Became a dog groomer's business until 2023.

looking into Purvis Road
Looking from Wilson Road into Purvis Road 1975
'Hairstyles' at No 37

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