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[News] Incident Boundary Road/NCR Jnct
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MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Yeah Paul and Dave(?) at Headroom - always banging on about greyhounds back in the day.
I frequented Freddies through the 80's and then moved up the hill to Headroom, though gladly never got a flat top like the rest of you mugs.
Their shop was also immortalised in the Dunst/Bettany schlock movie Wimbledon, when it was transformed by the power of movie magic into - appropriately - a bookies. They also painted a fake door on the doctors opposite, to make it look like a pub (I think?) which remains to this very day.
Seriously guys - I know I'm old but what the hell is a flat top?
Being follicly challenged, this has obviously passed me by
Although my mate's at the Goldstone was more this (and he's white!)
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
mine was like this, shaved bald at the side,, ahhhh memoriesSeriously guys - I know I'm old but what the hell is a flat top?
Being follicly challenged, this has obviously passed me by
Nobby
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- Sep 29, 2007
- 2,622
strewth!!
Nobby
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- Sep 29, 2007
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you learn something every day
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
Funny you should say that, back in the 90s I was fitting carpet in a house in Irlam Manchester and the occupants who were black, were asking me why I had a black mans haircut, I had to explain Will Smith was not the first person to have a flat top, and it was a GI haircut from the WW2, then young rockabillys in the late 70s used to get them, the only reason some of the 2Tone kids in the 80s got them was copying Suggs from Madness who liked Woodies haircut from the band who was a rockabilly.
They were not bothered, wasted my time explaining that to them and probably on here.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
I used to go to the barbers in East St…..but having bought a set of hair clippers off Amazon during the ‘pandemic’ I’ve never returned…daughter does hair I cut her and her husbands grass ….works well
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Fred's
There was another old school barber in a street above Western Road that was full on because he started doing flattops around that time.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
The GI version used to be called a crew cut. Mums liked the boys to have them as it reduced the chance of getting nits at school.
Went to Cropshop for 20 plus years and likewise bought clippers during lock down. I liked everything about the Cropshop, the banter, the haircuts everything, except hanging around waiting for my turn. I have really got my money's worth from those clippers, even if my hairstyle has suffered.
I took both my lads there as well and my oldest now 26 has never had his haircut by anyone bar Roy (RIP), Gordon and briefly me during lockdown. I have no idea how he will cope when Gordon decides to retire and he finally has to have a conversation with a barber as to how he would like his haircut.
PascalGroß Tips
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- Jan 29, 2024
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I sometimes went into Cropshop many years ago before I started going to DM’s. I hadn’t realised the sad news about Roy. There used to be another lad that sometimes used Gordon’s chair that moved to East St barbers with Rob before Rob retired.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Rob’s retired! Whoa he was the one who used to do my hair before P ….thinking about it I used to see him walking on Shoreham Beach and haven’t recently ..u know if he’s still local?
PascalGroß Tips
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- Jan 29, 2024
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Yes, must be a couple of years or thereabouts. Yes, still local (one of the older bungalows north side of Old Fort Road I think) See him and his wife around town occasionally ... sometimes with their grandkids. Last time I saw him was a few weeks ago at the new coffee shop at the lights heading out of town opposite the old civic centre. He's a keen MTB'er and has (or had) the exact same Giant MTB as I've got. In fact, looking at the most recent Google street map for East St, you can see Rob sat in the chair and his MTB out the front.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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Anyone opening this thread in the last 12 hours looking for an update will be disappointed 
I'm sure I've posted on here before about the one and only time I went to Coopers. Like you I was enticed by the price, this was the mid-90s and it was £1.20. I went in to be greeted by an overwhelming smell of cat piss, and handwritten signs telling you not to complain about the waiting times.Last time I put my head round that door was 1987. It was only because I was a bit skint and his sign in the window offered a haircut for “100p”
On entering, he screamed at me “I don’t do flattops!” Totally puzzled as I neither had one, wanted one nor wore the type of clothes that might even imply I wanted one
When it was my turn ('short back and sides') he was silently clipping away when a guy in a wheelchair tried to get in. As you can see from the picture it was a very small door, and the guy was struggling. When he'd got about half way in Mr Cooper shouted "I don't want no cripples in here! Get out!" The poor guy looked shocked but reversed out again without complaint. I was shocked as well, Cooper saw my reflection in the mirror and said by way of explanation: "Well the wheelchairs damage the lino."
Needless to say I never went back.
(Sorry to take a serious thread a bit O/T. EDIT: Although having read the rest of the posts I don't think I need to have apologised!)
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Oh good ….if I recall correctly his wife used to also run a business in East Street.
That coffee shop you mentioned..will it survive? I hardly ever see anyone in there …maybe when those block of flats opposite Macs is finished it’ll do good business
PascalGroß Tips
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- Jan 29, 2024
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I've been doing my bit to support them. I'm a bit of a coffee snob and the young lad in there makes a great flat white (see pic
) - so I hope they do survive.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Great…i do love my coffee….its just kind a bit inconvenient (no parking), but its in my mind to get round to it.I've been doing my bit to support them. I'm a bit of a coffee snob and the young lad in there makes a great flat white (see pic
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Have you tried the one south side of shoreham station?
- Oct 17, 2008
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I still think that looks really cool on the right person to be fair.