THIS week the nostalgia section features a photograph taken on September 30, 1927.

It shows Henry John Bennett (Harry), 42, and his daughter, Phyllis Edna, 17, taken outside his hairdresser and tobacconists shop, believed to be 258 Holton Road.

Henry was born in Bristol and married a Rosina Webber from Twerton, near Bath, on Christmas day in 1907.

Soon after, they moved to Ferndale.

They had three sons and a daughter, Ken Noble’s mother, and they moved to Barry around 1920.

Mr Noble said: “My grandmother, with the help of my mother, ran the tobacconists, whilst, at the back of the shop, my grandfather cut men’s hair and shaved many more customers.

“My uncle Ronald now helped his father and was his lather boy. Men would be sat all around the rear of the shop and my uncle would apply the lather to their face, followed by my grandfather shaving them with a cut-throat razor. My uncle told me that it was difficult to keep in front of his father as shaving took only seconds to complete.

“My uncle took over the business and moved across the road to 241, Holton Road. There he cut hair and in his spare time he mended umbrellas. Their original shop was taked over by the Zangaris family. Ronald retired in 1964 and sold his business to Andreas Asprou.”