1898
William Edward Burrage - Gents Hairdresser (Source)

William Edward Burrage - Gents Hairdresser

1937
William Edward Burrage - Gents Hairdresser (K1937)

1939
Frank Walter Hurr - Gents Hairdresser (SRB1939). Frank Hurr's salon is on the first floor. His wife, Betty Hurr (nee Howard), keeps a small stationery and giftware shop ('Fancy Repository') on the ground floor. They live on the premises. (LM).

1940
Frank Walter Hurr -Gents Hairdresser. (SRB) Betty Hurr - 'Fancy Repository'. Betty also sells sheet music and gramophone records which customers can listen to before buying. (LM)

Frank Walter Hurr - Gents Hairdresser. Some evenings, Frank's son, Brian, works as a part-time projectionist at the Southwold Cinema in York Road. Perhaps this connection explains why one of Frank's ex-customers remembers that his waiting chairs looked like old plush cinema seats. (LM)

Frank also drives the Southwold Red Cross Ambulance and, thogether with his cousin, William Eastaugh (formerly of No 64 High Street), has a remarkable escape during the 1953 floods. To read an account of this click here. (LM). To read some memories of Frank Hurr as a hairdresser, click here.

Betty Hurr - Fancy Repository, stationery, sheet music and gramophone records

Frank Walter Hurr - Gents Hairdresser.

1979
Frank Walter Hurr - Gents Hairdresser. Frank dies suddenly this year. Betty moves to Saxmundham to be nearer their son. The premises becomes residential. (LM)

We are grateful to Frank Hurr's cousin, John Dixon for contributing information and memories.