Bill Wendon brought this electrical hairbrush to the BBC bus on Colchester high street. He runs a hairdressers in Colchester and this was given to him by a customer. It would have been used in salons in the early 1900s.
Electrical Hairbrush From Colchester
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Colchester, Essex
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1903
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