22 Market Street
Fenwick's / The shop
The room has barely changed since 1987, which is exactly how the regulars like it. Have a look round before you sit down.
Inside the shop
Nothing on it has moved since the nineties. Tap a photo to see it bigger.
The full inventory
Regulars ask about all of it eventually. Here is the honest list, in the order Ray hung it.
Ray outside the shop, arms folded, pole freshly fitted. Taken by the baker across the road.
Mounted on a board by a grateful customer who worked in the joinery trade. Still oiled.
A gentleman's cut was £2.50. Pinned behind glass so nobody gets ideas.
Taped to a piece of card in Ray's handwriting. The tape has been replaced. The pound has not.
Went up in 1994 and was never updated. Regulars still check it on the way out. It never changes.
First cuts, proud mums, gap-toothed grins. Some of them now bring their own kids in.
Nobody can agree who signed it or when. Danny says it came with the shop. It stays.
Forty three and counting. The rule is you send one from wherever you get your first haircut somewhere else.
22 Market Street
The room
One room, three chairs, a bench along the window and a kettle that is nearly always just boiled. The pole outside is the second one; the first lasted twenty two years and is in the back room, waiting to be needed.
The mirrors are the ones Ray hung in 1987. The radio sits on the shelf above the till, tuned to the same station it has always been tuned to, and turning it over is the only thing in the shop that is genuinely not allowed.
It smells of talc and coffee, the chat is optional, and you will hear the clippers before you see the door. That is the whole offer, and it has filled three chairs for thirty nine years.
At the till
The till took its first pound in 1987 and its first contactless tap in 2019. It has strong opinions about neither.
Book a chair
Walk in whenever the pole is turning, or book a time and a barber online and the chair is held for you.