Quiet start to the day at Wood's

James Wood and Sons opened its doors in 1870.

Barbers are one of the last bastions of maledom. A place of pure and simple, does what it says on the tin, types of places.

It was a quiet start to the day today. Not for Colin though. He was the only barber at his post and there were a steady stream of early morning customers but not too many to be overwhelmed.

Sitting in a chair where a fellow Edinburgher would have sat over 140 years ago getting his short back and sides Colin chatted about his holiday last year in Marrakech. That and the weather of course. I'm pretty sure that the weather would have been in the conversation back when Wood's first opened its doors. It's nice to sit in a chair getting your hair cut in the same place and the same way that a Victorian chap would have done all those years ago.

If Marrakech did crop up in conversation 140 years ago I'm sure it would have been a discussion on the Empire and what would Queen Victoria be doing about it rather than which all inclusive hotel one should stay in.

Times have changed but Wood's is still there.