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\ud83d\udcf7 I love it when a high street shop gets renovated, and the ghost of what was there long ago makes a brief reappearance.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jean\u2019s Hair Fashions, which apparently was once a feature of Lower Kings Road in Berkhamsted. It seems that one thing that Berkhamsted has been consistent with throughout the ages is that there is no shortage of places to get your hair done.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\ud83d\udcf7 I love it when a high street shop gets renovated, and the ghost of what was there long ago makes a brief reappearance.<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","category-snippets","post_format-post-format-status","h-entry","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":126,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/27\/berkhamsted-webcam\/","url_meta":{"origin":13908,"position":0},"title":"Berkhamsted webcam","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"27 June 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that we've finished decorating our first room - the study - I've managed to get my webcam up and running, overlooking Berkhamsted. 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