Del looks a lot younger than I remember him, we didn't go to him many times, my mum didn't like him burping all the time. We then went to someone called Garry in Bridge Street. Later we went to a hairdresser in Elphick Road,  I can't think of his name though.

Re Terry's comment above, I used to go to hairdresser in Elphick Road in the 60's, I think his name was something like Dave Concozza or close to that. He was only in his 20's or early 30's at the time. The only Chemist I remember in Bridge Street was Mr Gibson who I think was next to the Bus Office. We lived opposite him in Brighton Road.

Del White was a "one cut wonder" and a very slow worker at that. I think it was the whisky that caused those famous "burps" he was often dodging out to the kitchen for a swig. Do you remember his old hand clippers pulling your hair!!! Garry in Bridge Street, I think was Norwegian, [remember the two Smarties] His grandson Alan, became an apprentice carpenter with Oxley & Bennett. "Gibbo's was next to the bus office and sold many a "toothbrush" to the teenage lads of that time. LOL.

I used to go to the barber's in Elphick Road in the 50s and the 60s, Paul. I seem to remember, in the early days, there was a long seat for waiting customers shaped out of what seemed to be plywood with an intricate pattern of holes drilled in it. They used to leave imprints on my legs! I remember Dave in the 60s - not sure of his name though. Didn't someone called Dave Cocozza keep goal for Newhaven sometime in the 60s? I doubt it was him though.

Yes I do remember the clippers pulling your hair! I also remember getting the smarties at Garys. When I started at Lewes Tech most of the other apprentices came from Seaford and they all had their hair cut by Tony Carolan, so I started going to him. He was pretty cool and used to have his E type Jaguar parked outside the shop, which impressed me no end.

How many remember going to Jack Shinn's in the High Street for a hair cut, he had a lovely clock with westminster chimes in the hallway.

Yeah I remember his one cut and hand clippers, my 2 brothers, dad and me used to go there as my gran lived in 47 Chapel Street. used to find it amusing albiet sometimes painful. I actualy liked him.

If it was a "short back and sides" you wanted, and had plenty of spare time, then Del was your man. Most of our fathers went to him. didn't they? We were more aware of our hair in our teens. I went to Tony and had mine done and when I got home and my dad saw it, he said "I thought you were going for an haircut, get yourself down to Del White and get it cut properly".

I seem to remember a Mr. Wright as the hairdresser in Elphick Road. His wife used to perform chiropody in a curtained off section of the shop. Does anyone remember Sid Cloke, who had a barbers opposite Saxonholme, between the old Post Office and Willowhale dentists. Now there was a speedy barber. Dad called him the "Up & Over Kid". Like Colin, I remember those hand clippers pulling my hair out and the rumbling burps, followed by "Pardon, please." Scrupulously polite was Del. He also had an ornate glass walking stick on display. Happy, if painful, days.