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Captain Fawcette
Herein lies Captain Fawcette’s Emporium.
Home to a range of gentleman’s grooming products.
Dead Mens Spex
Vintage spectacle frames
Massage Therapy
Massege Therapy
Morellos Vintage Clothing
Makers of our Bowling Shirts
Old Town
Classic British Workware
Osborne Signs
Traditional sign writing
The Gray Gallery
Editorial and Portrait photographer Tim James based in Holt
The Vintage TV & Wireless Co
Vintage elecrical service & repair.
World of Tattoos
Our Tattoo Artist

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The traditional barbers pole represents ‘Blood and Bandages’. It originates from the grizzly days when barbers not only cut hair and shaved stubbly chins but also performed tooth extraction, bloodletting and some surgery. A traditional barbers pole has a brass finial representing the bleeding bowl. The bowl would have been kept at the top of the pole when not in use. The washed but still blood stained bandages were hung on the pole to dry. The wind whipped them around the pole giving us the red and white candy stripes we know today.

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