Chair, cloth, time.

Three chairs. Thirty-five minutes. One price.A barbershop that books by the half hour and means it. The cloth goes on, the phone goes in the drawer, and nobody is asked what they're doing at the weekend.

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01 · The half hour

Thirty-five minutes, accounted for.

00:00

elapsed · the cloth comes off at 35

00–05 · TalkOnce. Then not.

05–25 · CutScissors, then clippers, then scissors.

25–30 · TowelHot. Neck and face.

30–35 · FinishRazor line, tonic, cloth off.

00:00 · The talkWhat do you want, what did the last person do wrong, how short is short. Five minutes, then the barber stops asking and starts.

A vintage cream barber's chair in a white-tiled room, hair on the floor around it

02 · The shop

Three chairs. No fourth.

chairs, three barbers, three people in the shop at a time. Plus you, waiting.

minutes. A cut takes what it takes; we booked what it takes.

£38

for the cut. Same for a shave. The price is on the mirror.

walk-ins refused before six. After six, it's whoever's in the book.

A grey striped barber's cloth draped over a chair

Cloth on. Phone away.

The drawer under the mirror is for it. You get it back with your coat. Thirty-five minutes without it is most of what people say they come for.

Three things. One price each.

The menu hasn't changed since we opened. It won't. If you want something not on it, ask the barber, who will probably say no.

35 minutesThe cutScissors, clippers, razor line, hot towel

The whole half hour. Wash if you want one. Tonic if you don't argue.

£38

35 minutesThe shaveHot towel, oil, lather, open razor, cold towel

Two passes, with and against. Nobody bleeds. Nobody talks during the second pass.

£38

60 minutesBothThe cut, then the shave, one chair, no break

An hour. You'll leave looking like a different decade, and better for it.

£68

The chairs

Who's on which chair.

You can ask for a barber. You can't ask for a different price. The chair by the window is the one people fight over.

A barber's hands folding a hot white towel

Window chairTwenty-two years. Scissors mostly. Doesn't do fades, does everything else better than anyone.

Middle chairFades, skin fades, the tight stuff. Fast hands, slow towel.

Back chairShaves. The only one of the three who'll pick up an open razor, and the only one you'd want to.

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TuesdayClosed. The chairs get oiled, the clippers get serviced, the barbers go somewhere else.

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The drawerPhone, keys, whatever else. Under the mirror. Back when the cloth comes off.

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Book a chair.

Pick a chair and a half hour. The book is by phone or in person, on paper, because the last online system double-booked the window chair for a year and we're not doing that again.

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