Wootton's The Hairdresser - 7 Tavern Street - Ipswich, Suffolk
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SMacB
N 52° 03.468 E 001° 09.229
31U E 373426 N 5769075
five panels on the first floor of 7 Tavern Street, once the home of a great emporium run by the Wootton family, selling fancy products to the gentry. Now it's the Carphone Warehouse.
Waymark Code: WMNE08
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/24/2015
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In Tavern Street, opposite the entrance to The Walk you can find several panels which someone has done their best to expunge. They still (just!) advertise the wares of a previous shop - it is Woottons the hairdresser.
The panels read (right to left.... that's the order I took the photos) -
Panel 1:
'PERMANENT
WAVING
-
FACE MASSAGE
-
HIGH
FREQUENCY
...'
Panel 2
'HAIR
BRUSHES
-
FANCY
COMBS
-
TOILET
GOODS
-
(word illegible behind burglar alarm)'
Panel 3:
'HOT
BATHS
(in larger, white, sans serif font)
---
LADIES &
GENTS
TOILET
SALOONS'
Panel 4:
TOYS &
GAMES
-
FANCY
CHINA
-
EBONY
GOODS
-
CUTLERY'
Panel 5:
'LEATHER(?)
GOODS
-
STATIONERY
-
FOUNTAIN
PENS'
-
FANCY
GOODS'
"The large white-painted area above the first storey windows probably bore the company name. The panels all display a pale or white background with maroon chequer border and decorative maroon coloured lettering which has been expanded or condensed to fit available spaces. The interlinking double-'O's (as in 'GOODS' are characteristic. Suffolk Record Office have an original advertisement for "Wootton's Shilling hollow-ground razor" [Wootton, George, fl 1890, razor seller, of Ipswich, Suffolk] and the same proprietor is listed as at 7 Tavern Street, Ipswich and 2 Bent Hill, Felixstowe."
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