Billy Shears Traditional Barbershop

Who is Billy Shears?

Robert William Pemberton aka Billy Shears

....introducing to you the one and only Billy Shears!

So the legend would have it Billy was born in Liverpool in 1895. He began his barbering career at 14 years of age and soon showed his talents for expert cutting. Six years later he opened his own shop - client's traveled from miles around to have their haircut by the talented Billy.

Soon he was the most famous barber in his hometown of Liverpool but Billy wanted more. He wanted to pass on his creative ideas to others and most of all he wanted to lift his industry and make it respected.

He began to travel to show others his talents. Barbers everywhere would clamor to see him perform his techniques and he is reputed, by his peers of that time long ago, to have been the first barber to evolve systems of cutting with his now famous shears.

As Billy traveled around he began to unite barbers in a common cause to make a better industry for all. He became a champion of this cause and by the early 1960's, a now famous but much older and wiser Billy, began to see hairdressing unfold into the respected industry it has become for us today.

It is also said that around this time four young Liverpool musicians went to his salon for a new look. After his death a few years later, those same four now famous musicians, sang about a Billy Shears on one of their unforgettable albums. Could they have been paying tribute to him?

Billy's name will live on forever and in some way we owe it to the legend of Billy Shears to keep his ideals of ethics, education, artistry and creativity alive for future generations of hairdressers.

........he is said to have died a happy man in the salon he made famous!