The Beatles' Hair Dresser: Bioletti

[taffy]

Not quite on Penny Lane but rather Smithdown Place. Photo courtesy Liverpool Record Office

[ChrisGeorge]

Not quite on Penny Lane but rather Smithdown Place. Photo courtesy Liverpool Record Office

Brilliant. Thanks, Taffy!

[grahamfairfax]

Biolettis was my barber as a youngster in the mid-1950,s.I remember the shop being lined with posters of famous bullfighters of the era like Manilletto(?) and photos of the various hairstyles that one could ask for(although they never looked the same on me!).
When I very small-4 or 5 maybe-I was sat on a wooden plank straddling the arms of the barbers chair enabling my locks to be shorn without too much bending on the barbers part.
Happy days and all for sixpence!

[ChrisGeorge]

Biolettis was my barber as a youngster in the mid-1950,s.I remember the shop being lined with posters of famous bullfighters of the era like Manilletto(?) and photos of the various hairstyles that one could ask for(although they never looked the same on me!).
When I very small-4 or 5 maybe-I was sat on a wooden plank straddling the arms of the barbers chair enabling my locks to be shorn without too much bending on the barbers part.
Happy days and all for sixpence!

Great memories. Thanks, Graham.

Chris

[ChrisGeorge]

Bioletti, da barber, cut Lennon's hair,
said "Purritinasong, John, if you dare."
Later Mac and John did that just that;
like the banker, we havata tip our hat.

[az_gila]

At Quarry Bank, I was in school with one of the Bioletti's - but since I started the year after John L. left - It was probably not Roger of the earlier posting.

As usual for that era, first names were not used, we just knew him as "Bio"...

Was there a younger brother?

[Oudeis]

At Quarry Bank, I was in school with one of the Bioletti's - but since I started the year after John L. left - It was probably not Roger of the earlier posting.

As usual for that era, first names were not used, we just knew him as "Bio"...

Was there a younger brother?

Baby-bio? I thought that was for pot-plants.

[az_gila]

Baby-bio? I thought that was for pot-plants.

I think there was only one at Quarry Bank at a time.

If there were two, he probably would have been "Bio two" - or "little Bio" depending on his height...

"Baby" was not a usual Liverpool term of endearment amonst our age in the 60's...

[cosser65]

This is fab - Harry and his wife, Betty retired to live next door to my gran and grandad in Carmel, North Wales and a while after Harry died (around the same time as my grandad Autumn 1977), Betty moved to Prestatyn but kept in touch with my gran who wouldn't have a phone put in!! They were a lovely couple and he often used to tell of cutting the Beatles hair.

My grandparents were from Liverpool & Southport (Maddocks and Highton respectively) and my gran's dad was Greek so goodness knows where the 'Maddocks' came from.