Clueless in Cannes: A Hairdressing Odyssey

By Richard Halstead

The year is 1963, and a very naive, recently qualified hairdresser from Lancashire takes a job in Cannes in the South of France to gain work experience and finds he has entered another world of unfamiliar sophistication.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Apr 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9781728386768

Richard Halstead

Richard Halstead 76 yrs old born in Halifax West Yorkshire moved to Blackpool Lancashire aged three trained as a hairdresser and ran successful hair salons for over 50 yrs

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CLUELESS in

CANNES

A Hairdressing Odyssey

RICHARD HALSTEAD

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Published by AuthorHouse  04/10/2019

ISBN: 978-1-7283-8675-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-8676-8 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019903528

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1     The Journey Begins

Chapter 2     School Days

Chapter 3     In Transit with Patrice

Chapter 4     Arrival in Cannes

Chapter 5     The Salon

Chapter 6     Reminisces of Blackpool

Chapter 7     Fashion, the Beach, and Hotels

Chapter 8     The Casino and the Shirt

Chapter 9     Thumbing a Lift to Rome

Chapter 10   The Aftermath

Chapter 11   Settling In

Chapter 12   Beatrice

Chapter 13   The Film Festival

Chapter 14   The Parisian Interlude

Chapter 15   A Cannes Reprise

Chapter 16   London It Is

Finale

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Big thanks to Jim for his rapid typing, and a special thanks to my wife, Linda, for her help and support.

PREFACE

I was on a golf trip to Yorkshire last year; we were a group of eight. After golf, dinner, and several drinks, the conversation would inevitably turn to the old times. The rest of the group were younger, so I amused them with anecdotes of my time in the South of France as a naive twenty-year-old. I decided to put pen to paper and titled it Clueless in Cannes because, quite simply, I was.

CHAPTER 1

The Journey Begins

Well, this is it. I was standing on the platform at Cannes railways station in the South of France with my leather suitcase. It was a very hot day, and the case got heavier and heavier. We didn’t have wheelie cases in those days. In fact, there were a lot of things we didn’t have then. It was 1963.