Remembering Frank Hurr

"Frank Hurr was a legend. He only ever had one style - 'short back and sides'. It was great for my Dad and all my uncles but when my brother started to go fishing and became a 'Dockside Dandy' with a DA haircut and the bright suits, he too ended up with a short back and sides and didn't go out for a month until it grew back. He never went to Frank again! But he was a lovely man." Shirley Wentworth

"What a butcher of hair he was! I first went at the tender age of 5. There was a high stool to sit on. My Dad took me and Mr Hurr always asked: 'Same as everybody else?' In the winter it was perishing cold round the neck walking back along Stradbroke Road." Jeff

"Frank cut my hair one last time before I joined the RN. I was the only recruit who didn't find a Navy haircut too distressing." Chris

Above are extracts from messages left on the Southwold Organ messageboard

"He had old tip-up cinema or theatre seats in tatty red plush upholstery for waiting chairs, and us small boys had to sit on a plank across the barbers chair. There was also a penny in the slot machine which gobbled your money and never paid out and which we thought was rigged." Peter Parke