Books

During the past 200 years Truefitt & Hill has drawn the attention of gentlemen around the world. Some of those gentlemen just happen to be the authors of some very notable books.

Guinness

Established on October 21st, 1805, Truefitt & Hill is recognized by The Guinness Book of World Records as being the oldest barbershop in the world.

History

On April 14th 1912, the history books recorded one of the worst maritime catastrophes ever, in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Over half a century later, an H.P. Truefitt ceramic pomade pot was recovered from the wreckage of a ship once thought lost. It has never been so tragically evident that throughout history Truefitt & Hill has been a companion to supreme fashion and wealth.

Literature

Some of history’s most well known authors have written about their experiences at Truefitt and Hill. Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde and William Thackeray have all written extensively about the wonder of a cut and a shave at the world’s finest barbershop.

All the Year Round by Charles Dickens, 1894

“… But never, never since America in London at seasontide has become on the institutions of the country, have our American visitors of the male gender had a real ‘Amumurican’ barber saloon—a tonsorial parlour where they can get ‘a dandy haircut and other due fixings’—at their command. It has remained to Messrs. H.P. Truefitt (Limited), of Old Bond Street to supply this void in our civilization, and after the usual manner and custom of the celebrated firm, they have done it right well.”

“All good Americans, when they die are said to go to Paris; but all good Americans come to London first, and I’m sure all good Americans who come to London will go to Messrs. H.P. Truefitt’s (Limited) new saloon, there to luxuriate in tonsorial attentions by real American operators, under real American—and they are world-renowned—conditions”

The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William – 1904

“In these melancholy cogitations the Major, who had donned his own dressing gown and replaced his head of hair (a little grey had been introduced into the coiffure of late by Mr. Truefitt, which had given the Major’s head the most artless and respectable appearance)…