Cutting the cost over the years

I FOUND the archive photograph of the former Bristows hairdressing salon in City Square, Leeds (Yorkshire Post, April 9) most interesting.

As a hairdresser myself working at a nearby salon in Upper Mill Hill for stylist Sid Jackson (who also ran a salon in nearby Boar Lane) in the mid- 1950s that establishment had already existed for over 50 years.

I well remember a gent’s haircut at that time was 2/6 (12½p) and a wet shave 1/- (5p). It made me wonder just how much they would cost in 1910 and what it costs today!

On the cards

From: Michael Green, Baghill Green, Tingley, Wakefield.

ROYAL Mail apparently turned down a number of postcard pictures submitted to them by Bamforth (Yorkshire Post, April 4) because they featured “smutty jokes” or were “anti-Germanic”.

But back in 1994, Royal Mail were perfectly happy to issue a whole set of stamps showing saucy postcards.

The best known one showed, as the official description decorously described it, “man on the beach asking if anybody had seen his little boy whose name was Willy”. We all know it by a rather shorter title! How times change!

Taking note

From: Philip C Tordoff, Wood View, Hightown Road, Cleckheaton.

AS a frequent user of various bus stations in West Yorkshire, I for one, welcome the type of music currently being played. On the other hand, what would dear old Johann Sebastian Bach have thought of the idea of his most sublime music actually being used as a deterrent 300 years later? If sheer power is desired, then perhaps these young people should be recommended to go and hear the tuba stop on the organ in Halifax Minster!

Tax demand

From: ME Wright, Grove Road, Harrogate.

YOUR Editorial (Yorkshire Post, April 11) attributed George Osborne’s “shock” at learning that some of the nation’s wealthiest pay “virtually no” income tax to “naivety”.

I suspect that many of us are more inclined to say: “Pull the other one, George.”