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BottleKilnBarbers

Longton, Stoke-on-Trent

Walk-in barbers next to the Gladstone Pottery Museum. No appointments, no booking. You come in, you sit down, you get seen — Tuesday to Saturday, and Thursday till 8.

The Gladstone Pottery Museum's bottle kilns silhouetted against an orange dusk sky over soot-dark brick in Longton, with wet pavement catching the streetlight
The Gladstone's kilns, Longton. The shop sits next door.

How it is right now

Set by Dean from the shop

Steady A short wait — take a seat, you'll not be long. Is it busy? →

The strip warms up along its length as the wait grows: quiet, steady, full. Check it before you cross the road.

What it costs

Prices

Fades, beard trims, kids' cuts, hot towel shaves, old fella haircuts — the lot. Every one has a set price on the full list, so you know what you're paying before you sit down.

  • Fadesskin, taper, blended in
  • Beard trimsshaped and lined up
  • Kids' cutspatience included
  • Hot towel shavestowel on, eyes shut
  • Old fella haircutsshort back and sides, done proper

Same figure for everyone, written up plain.

Full price list →
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Walk-ins all day
Wednesday
Walk-ins all day
Thursday
Walk-ins all day till 8
Friday
Walk-ins all day
Saturday
Walk-ins all day
Sunday
Closed

When the door's open

Hours

Walk-ins all day, Tuesday to Saturday. Thursday we stay open late, till 8 — the one night in Stoke you can get a proper haircut after work.

No slots, no set time to turn up for. If the door's open, come in and sit down.

No booking

Just come in

There's no booking system here and there isn't going to be one. You'll not find a button for it anywhere on this site, because there's nothing behind it.

You turn up, you take a seat, you'll be seen. That's how it's worked for six years in the same shop in Longton, and it still does — for the regulars and for anyone walking in for the first time.

If you want to know how long you'll wait, the gauge at the top tells you. If it says full, have a wander round the Gladstone and come back in a bit.

Empty waiting chairs against cream tiles inside the barbers, a football scarf hung over one chair back and a folded newspaper on the next, lit warm by tungsten light
The waiting chairs. Take one; you'll be seen.
A terraced Longton street on a Saturday afternoon with a bottle kiln on the skyline and a few people in football scarves walking away up the road

Saturdays after the match

Saturdays get busy, and everyone walking up from the football asks the same thing: how long's the wait? Check the gauge before you cross the road. We're open all day Saturday, so if it's full there's no rush — come back in a bit.

Is it busy? →
The Gladstone Pottery Museum's bottle kilns rising from soot-black brick at dusk, seen from the pavement, with the edge of a shop awning at the side of the frame

Finding us

Right by the Gladstone

The shop's next to the Gladstone Pottery Museum in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent — that's where the name comes from. Head for the bottle kilns and you're there.

Find the shop →

Six years in the same shop. Dean and two lads, Tuesday to Saturday. Come in.