Shaw's hairdressers in St Leonards, East Sussex, is closing its doors after 78 years of trading. In this video, Michael Shaw talks about how his father and brother found the premises back in 1945.
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00:00 In 1945 my father and my brother came down from Tunbridge Wells, they had a hairdressers
00:09 there and he wanted to see what it was like to come to Hastings.
00:13 My brother climbed in the window because there was bomb damage and my father looked at the
00:18 building and liked it and bought the place.
00:21 When my brother was 15 he came in the shop with my dad and then when I was 15, because
00:27 I was just born then in 1945, when I was 15 I came in the shop and we've been there ever
00:35 since right up to now.
00:37 64 years I've been in the shop, our wives joined us, they've been lovely, they've been
00:42 helping us, they've been in the ladies side, we've had all the family doing ladies hairdressing
00:47 and gents hairdressing, we've been very, very lucky.
00:51 I haven't had enough because I'm going to do a few more haircuts outside, not in the
00:55 shop anymore, this is the end of the shop, so it's been here since 1945.
01:03 We've having a soiree, we've got customers and family, loads of family here and we've
01:08 got customers come in and everything else so it's been a really lovely day.
01:13 It's very emotional, very emotional, it's lovely, lovely, all the family are lovely.
01:19 One of our family looking for a parking space.
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