The salon was set up more than three decades ago

A popular and long-standing Doncaster barber salon has closed its doors - with its owner sending a heartfelt and emotional message to customers.

Sir, which was based in Livingstone Avenue, Clay Lane, has closed down after more than 30 years in business.

The firm was set up by barber Jamie Currie in the former base of the late Doncaster photographer Roy Ingram who previously ran his Danum Press Agency from the premises.

In a farewell message, he wrote: “On Sunday 23 August, Sir barbers closed its doors for the final time.

“That date means everything to me. It was exactly 34 years to the day since I first opened those doors at 19 years old, with a pair of scissors, a lot of belief and no idea where the journey would take me.

“Over the following 34 years, I had the privilege of watching a community change and generation after generation grow. A dad would bring his little lad in for his first haircut, sat on his knee.

“Years later, that same little lad would return as a man, this time with his own son sat on his knee and, incredibly, I was there long enough to see it happen all over again when that boy grew up and brought in a child of his own.

“Then there were the brothers, fathers, sons, cousins, uncles and grandads, and the mums who brought their boys and waited for them, often travelling miles week after week.

“We shared laughter, stories, celebrations and difficult times. We lost some truly significant people along the way, but new faces and new generations arrived, filling the shop with new stories and experiences.

“Being part of all that has been one of the greatest privileges of my life.

“You could have the biggest villain in Donny sat next to the chief of CID; a multimillionaire next to a bloke without two pennies to rub together; a little lad on his dad’s knee having his first haircut and an old man who had been coming for years having one of his last.

“Travellers, priests and everyone in between were all there together, talking, laughing and sharing the kind of relentless banter that, in the strangest and nicest way, brought everyone closer together and made the whole room feel like one community.

“I genuinely expected Sir to be around forever. But after stepping away, I realised how much the business had always depended upon my daily presence, attention and energy. Maintaining its standards and values from a distance was no longer sustainable.

“This is not the ending I imagined, and I am sorry it has ended this way.

“But life does not always turn out how the mind expects it to, and I accept that. I would rather close the doors with dignity and remember Sir for everything it truly was than allow its final chapter to define the entire story.

“The doors have closed, but the friendships, memories and thousands of stories created inside them will remain forever.”