A single chrome barber chair standing on a black and white checkerboard floor in a white-tiled room

No. 41Chester Street · Wrexham · since 2014

Four chairs
one door

Walk in and take the bench by the window, or book the chair you want. Skin fade £19. Straight razor, two hot towels, £32. Closed Sunday and Monday, and we mean it.

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Chair one, 07.40, before the lamps warm up

01Dai · free 09.2002Emeka · free 11.0003Marta · booked out04Reuben · walk-ins

Three barbers working at three chairs down a long pale room, seen from the back of the shop

Station 01 — the room

Hard light, white tile, nothing to look at but the work

Four chairs in a line, a mirror each, and a counter you can see the whole length of. We keep the lamps cold and high so that a fade shows its own mistakes. If a line is wrong you will see it from the door, which is the point.

Who stands where →

The back of a head three weeks after a cut, the hairline grown soft and the neck untidy — Three weeks apart · chair one · 35 minutes · hover to run it out

The same nape finished, the fade run out clean and the neckline squared off — Three weeks apart · chair one · 35 minutes · hover to run it out

Photographed on a Thursday morning with the shutter up and no flash kit — the lamps are the lamps.

A black buttoned waiting bench against a white wall on a dark tiled floor — The bench · first come

A heap of steel scissors tipped out across a bench top — Sharpened every six weeks

A wall of dark glazed brick tiles with pale grout running between them — The back wall, 1931

Station 02 — three of the ten

What most people sit down for

Thinning shears and a comb working across the back of a dark head of hair

£19

Skin fade

Clipper out to the skin at the bottom, blended by hand up to whatever you keep on top. Thirty-five minutes. Ask for Emeka.

35 min · chair 02 · shot Tuesday 14.10

A red comb lifting grey hair while a straight blade follows it across the top of a head

£22

Scissor cut, long on top

All scissor, no clipper anywhere on the head. Forty minutes because it cannot be rushed, and it grows out straight for six weeks.

40 min · chair 03 · shot Thursday 16.25

A badger brush laying white lather along a jaw, photographed in black and white

£32

Straight-razor shave

Two hot towels, soap whipped in a bowl, two passes and a cold one. Forty-five minutes flat on your back. Not for a nine o'clock meeting.

45 min · chair 04 · shot Saturday 08.05

All ten, with the minutes →

Shave

A barber drawing a straight razor down a jaw through a cloud of steam from a hot towel

Chair four, 07.50, the first shave of a Saturday

Straight-razor shave£32

On the clock45 min

Booked onlyNot after 17.00

Towel, four minutes

Out of the cabinet at about 70 °C, wrung and wrapped. It is hotter than you expect for ten seconds and then it is the best part of your week.

Oil, then soap off a brush

Pre-shave oil worked in against the grain, then soap whipped in a scuttle until it holds a peak. Canned foam does none of this and we do not keep any.

First pass, with the grain

Open blade, held at thirty degrees, short strokes, skin pulled tight with the other hand. This pass takes the length off and nothing else.

Second pass, across it

Re-lather and go across the grain, not against it. Against the grain is how people end up with ingrown hairs on their neck, so we only do it if you ask twice.

Cold towel and alum

Cold towel to shut everything down, alum block over the jaw, balm if your skin takes it. You walk out at forty-five minutes, not fifty.

Station 03 — the board on the back wall

Pillarbox

Prices are the prices. Minutes are the minutes. Nothing on this board has gone up since March 2025.

Cuts

Dry trim, no wash£1420′

Cut & finish£1730′

Skin fade£1935′

Scissor cut, long on top£2240′

Head shave with a blade£2640′

Shaves & beards

Beard shape, clippers£1115′

Beard, scissor & razor line£1625′

Straight-razor shave£3245′

Shave & crop together£4470′

Under 12s, before 15.00£1020′

We do not colour hair · we do not fit hair systems · we do not come to your house

Station 04 — four people

Ask for a name, not a time

A barber in a dark apron standing at his own station, caught in the mirror behind him

Dai Pritchard

Owner. Scissor-over-comb and flat tops. Thirty-one years, the last twelve here. Will talk about Wrexham A.F.C. unless asked not to.

A barber in a black apron photographed straight on against a dark wall

Emeka Nwosu

Fades and line-ups, and the only one of us who will do a design. Books out about ten days ahead, so plan it.

A barber with a top-knot and a tattooed forearm working a comb and clipper up the side of a seated man’s head

Marta Sowińska

All-scissor work and anything curly. Trained in Poznań, eight years on the floor. Fastest clean crop in the shop: nine minutes.

A gloved barber running a clipper up the side of a seated client’s head under a single hanging lamp

Reuben Ffoulkes

Finished his apprenticeship here in 2024 and took the razor chair. Shaves, beard work, and most of the walk-ins after four.

All four, and what they refuse to do →

Station 05 — the door

Half past eight,
Tuesday,
chair one

Booking opens three weeks out. Walk-ins get whatever is free, and on a Saturday before ten there is usually something.