![]() Elijah and family arranged to move the few yards along the road. He continued to operate from his front room until 1936 when the shop occupied by Tom Kimber the cobbler became available. These premises were not designed as a shop Elijah merely used what was the front room of the terrace house, a quite common occurrence in those days. ![]() ![]() After serving in the First World War Elijah decided to move with, his wife Lily to Lenton in 1919 and to set up shop in their new home 40, Abbey Street. Below we relate the story of both barbershops - Lenton's and the Brewhouse Yard's.īorn in the early 1890s Elijah Harrison started work as a barber in Ilkeston, his hometown. Not everything connected with Harrison's, however, has gone for ever, for some of the fittings have reappeared on the top floor of the Brewhouse Yard in the Museum's own little barber shop, opened for viewing this July. Razed to the ground it has joined all those other businesses that are no more just fading memories in the minds of local folk. Now the building, along with the adjoining terrace of houses on Abbey Street, has gone. When Gordon Harrison died in 1982, the door of his barber's shop was shut, never to reopen for business again. ![]() The staff of Harrison's hairdressers, 32 Abbey Street, 1936. ![]()
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