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Celebrating 70 years 1942 - 2012 In the years from 1850 onwards, Lucinda Roche carried on her hairdressing profession by visiting and attending to the grooming needs of the nobility of Dublin in their own homes. Her family followed in her hairdressing footsteps; one a ship’s hairdresser, back and forth to New York, the others settled in their native Dublin. Her son Thomas opened his first barber shop in 1879 on Haddington Road, transferring it eight years later to North Strand Road.
This 1890’s north city salon was reputed to be the most hygienic in Dublin, decorated extensively with marble and tile. It had seven hairdressing points to ensure efficient service.
In 1941 a stray German bomb demolished a section of the North Strand, killing many Dubliners and causing a lot of destruction to property including Roches Barbers shop, where Joseph, the next generation had been in charge. However ten months later in 1942, Joseph relaunched the Roche name at Lower Kimmage Road on the south side of Dublin. Joseph had seven sons and one daughter, five of his sons and his daughter have followed in the hairdressing profession.
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