On a normal Saturday, City Barbers in High Skellgate Ripon, would open at 9am – but this was no normal Saturday.
A queue of men of different ages, with different hair lines and lengths of hair, started to form from 6am and waited in orderly fashion for their turn in one of the two chairs.
Adam Blackburn, a customer of the shop for more than 15 years and with a full head of hair, told The Stray Ferret:
“I just couldn’t wait to get it cut, so got up early, but when I arrived here at 6.30, there were 17 people ahead of me!”
The queue stretched up High Skellgate and, at the time writing, up to 25 men were waiting for their first post-lockdown hair cut.
Desperate for a trim – it’s been 3 months since many had a trip to the barbers
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At the Fadezone Hair Studio on North Street, where three barbers were in operation from 9am, customers also waited patiently on the pavement, some reading newspapers as they awaited their first trim in more than three months.
At both shops and all other hairdressing businesses around the city, owners have put social distancing and hygiene arrangements in place, including the installation of perspex screens to protect customers and staff, along with the wearing of face shields and masks, use of hand and surface sanitisers and prominently displayed signage.
