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The Hair Shop
Castlederg, Northern Ireland - Jamie - Wednesday, May 4th, 2005 : goo
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I used to see this place regularly on my travels and it always captivated my imagination in a peculiarway. I never decided wheter it was open for business or whether is was an abandoned building. I took these photos of it back in 2002 with my toy digicam. I used to take photos with that thing on a daily basis. Lo-fi black and white ones. I posted a handfull of them here, but mostly on my own site, which is now defunct.
Castlederg is an odd little town, just minutes from the Donegal border. Quaint but with a lingering sense of suspiscion. All these little towns that line Northern Ireland's disputed borders are much the same. A naive younger me revelled in the assumed risk involved in working in these odd little places. The younger invincible jamie enjoyed the novelty factor of driving through bandit country. Through the hinterlands of these funny little border-towns.
Part of me misses the daily novelty of new things
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Peter: 4th May 2005 - 13:11 GMT
that place looks quaint at first, then creepy as you take a closer look. very few signs of human activity. i bet its really quiet around there. is that the place that would leave the scraps of hair littered about the street?
Peter: 4th May 2005 - 13:42 GMT
ahh, heh. this abandoned place looks creepy. i dont think id go there to get my hair cut.
elaine: 4th May 2005 - 15:24 GMT
it looks like it could just as easily be somewhere you would go to buy hair. there is a comedy show here called the league of gentlemen which is set in a remote english village, and everything is dark and inverted and the people are inbred, with very very dark twisted consequences. it wouldn't sell in america
hasslehoff: 4th May 2005 - 16:35 GMT
damn was that on last night? i missed it didn't i. it's funny i often amused myself by imagining this exact scenario. a seedy little shoppe where one might go in order to furtively purchase some fine human hair. for what purpose who knows, but it's not wrong. not like they say it is.
elaine: 4th May 2005 - 16:39 GMT
yeah, but you know what, i couldn't watch it. i think i may be full. i saw those same actors do 'Art' in the west end which was fab, and the ginger bloke played sexy Ripley in Blackpool which was very underwatched last autumn. I loved the very first episode with the scary gypsy carnie bloke... and all the doubling up in the casting. it was so good, but i watched it to death
Jamie: 9th May 2005 - 11:21 GMT
get you hair worked on? you make it sound as though you have some kind of an intricate afro affair going on atop your head. do you? can we see it? awesome :-)
Peter: thats funny that its called "nick's"! heh heh
elaine: 13th May 2005 - 14:37 GMT
you got it. i was going to go in and ask the guy if he had done it as a joke, but i decided he hadn't and wouldn't understand the question or had heard it a hundred times and would not think it was funny, more like
lynchy: 2nd Jun 2005 - 19:13 GMT
The hairshop was actually owned by my cousin, it does look like league of gentlemen quality but it was a real hub of activity in the early nineties, they also did the most coolest hairstyles around back then but it was a COOL place to hang & the girls who worked for my cousin were pretty tasty. Sorry to ruin your perception of it as some sort of little shop of horrors. AHH i pity city people u have absolutely no idea sometimes.
Jamie: 5th Sep 2005 - 11:35 GMT
heh, somehow i missed this comment unil now. I now feel somehow dissapointed that i ventured there a decade too late. To late to catch the tasty girls and the coolest hair action around.
terry: 26th Oct 2005 - 19:39 GMT
i got my hair cut there! the hair dresser cut her finger. my hair was covered in blood lol
GGP: 26th Oct 2005 - 19:41 GMT
my first haircutter, when I was a kid, was named Nick, but we called him "Mr. Nick."
steve: 15th Nov 2005 - 22:02 GMT
i use to live in da derg and remember it well. It was a dump and all the people were the worst people you would want to meet. They were either into drugs or fighting. They all had an attitude problem. U have to go into da town to see how many ass holes there are
anon (dial81-131-140-204.in-addr.btopenworld.com): 1st Jan 2006 - 22:34 GMT
2 faced shites and nothing but scummy tramps
mark: 12th Feb 2006 - 15:22 GMT
castlederg is a rough little town. They love to fight especially against the other side. they think there hard men, if you want my advice stay away it is a town full of wasters, thankfully its the most isolated town in n.ireland
derg gal: nothing wrong way the derg i love it
albert street: the derg is agreat place no surrender
Jamie: 14th Mar 2006 - 10:54 GMT
language is a funny thing isn't it. i like how 'you' becomes 'yous' becomes 'use' ultimately becoming almost nonsensical. heh. i also like how this post attracts such random wankers
????: 6th Apr 2006 - 11:19 GMT
funny your able to admite it attracts such wankers as u seem to be one yourself love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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