Barber Gallery

Trumpers Barbers - Mayfair, London

Barbershop in Central London - Mayfair. G F Trumper & Sons. An elaborate belt-driven machinery above the mirror drives a head massaging brush. Established 1875. Matchless range of gentleman's fragrances and grooming products. Still at the same location today and still has the massaging brushes - in use today! Their own preparations bear a famous cap in the shape of a crown - visible in the cabinets above the sink counter

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Cartoon - WWI - Haircut

A cartoon making light of the perils of life on the front line and the frequent need for surgical intervention to operate on soldiers. The Operator: "Ow will yer ave it cut?" The Victim: "Without gas, please." Date: circa 1915

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Cartoon, The Censor at Work, WW1

Cartoon, The Censor at Work as he is seen by the Press, with a quotation from The Taming of the Shrew: Here's snip, and nip, and cut, and slish, and slash, Like to a censer in a barber's shop. A comment on strict censorship of the press during the First World War. Date: September 1914

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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