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The shop

Three barbers, one price board, since 1974.

Walter Hoyle opened this shop the year Leeds market still had its old glass roof. It has stayed on the same forty yards of Kirkgate ever since.

Why Walter opened it, and why Michael kept it small

Walter Hoyle trained on Vicar Lane in the 1960s and always said the big chains taught barbers to work fast rather than well. He opened his own chair on Kirkgate in 1974 with one rule: never book more than one customer’s worth of time to a customer’s worth of chair. Michael took the shop over from his father in 1998 and has kept exactly that rule since — three chairs, three barbers, no fourth chair added no matter how long the Saturday queue gets.
The three people who’ll cut your hair
Walter HoyleFounder · still on the chair Saturday mornings

Opened the shop on Kirkgate in 1974

Michael HoyleOwner & master barber

City & Guilds Level 3 · took over from Walter in 1998

Priya SandhuBarber · beard specialist

City & Guilds Level 3 · joined 2021

Aiden MarshBarber

City & Guilds Level 2 · apprenticed under Michael, 2019

What backs every chair

The standards, explained in English

Every barber says they’re qualified. Here is what ours actually means — each one checkable independently of us.

City & Guilds qualified

Every barber here holds a Level 2 or 3 City & Guilds Barbering qualification, not an in-house certificate we printed ourselves.
What the qualification covers

A fresh blade, every time

Straight razors carry a disposable blade replaced for every single customer; clippers and combs are sterilised between chairs, not wiped.
Our hygiene routine

Patch tests, when it matters

Any beard dye or chemical treatment is patch-tested 48 hours ahead, every time — no exceptions, whoever’s asked for it.
Why we always test

Registered and insured

Public liability cover to £2m and registered with the local authority as a special treatment premises — the paperwork most shops don’t show you.
See our certificate
Drilling a fade in eight minutes sells the next customer faster. Blending it properly takes twenty-five and sells nothing except the cut itself. We’d rather be the second shop.
Michael Hoyle, owner
Get in the chair

Booked in five minutes, done in twenty-five.

Book online for a set time, or walk in and take your chances on a Saturday — most walk-ins are seen inside twenty minutes.
Book online0113 245 6620
Open six days a week · Last chair 30 minutes before close