'It was all fields!' Telford hairdresser reflects on changes after calling time on 40-year salon career
A Telford hair salon owner has thanked her customers for 40 years of loyal support after deciding to call it a day at the end of this month.
Grace Joseph, who owns Hair Junction in Leegomery and has worked as a hairdresser in the area since the early 1980s, says it's the right time to hand the business over after nearly 50 years in the trade.
Mrs Joseph, who moved to Telford in 1981, said the town was almost unrecognisable from the place she arrived in as a wide-eyed 22-year-old.
Grace had sold a salon business in her home city Cardiff to come to Shropshire with footballer husband Antone, who had signed for Telford United from Weymouth during the summer, and said the change of pace from the bright lights of the Welsh capital was stark.
"Telford was extremely quiet in those days, we didn't even have a town centre then!
