Dorothy Margaret Edwards

The hairdresser of the family, my mum Dorothy.



Dorothy told stories of the local actors and actresses who frequented the salon she worked for around St. Georges Place in Liverpool Town centre.

They were from the Empire Theatre, New Shakespeare Theatre and often gawdy, sometimes openly homosexual which was very much a taboo back in the late 1940s. They did have money though, and she said that they tipped well. She recounted events at the Adelphi Hotel and wild parties that stretched into the night although she said she never witnessed these first hand.

She used to buy her cigarettes from a small tobacconists at number 16, in between the Imperial and Washington Hotels at St. Georges Place. These were probably unfiltered Woodbines which were her cigarette of choice.

Dorothy was offered at job working on the Cunard line on a cruise ship out of the Port of Liverpool, but declined as she had met the young cheeky Arthur Herbert Weldon.