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Andrew Pears arrived in London in 1789 from his native Cornish village of Mevagissey, where he had trained as a barber. He opened premises in Gerrard Street, Soho - then a fashionable residential area - and was soon enjoying considerable patronage from wealthy families, whose tonsorial needs were attended to by Pears in their own homes. The Gerrard Street shop was used for the manufacture and sale of rouges, powders, creams, dentifrice's and other beauty aids-preparations used extensively by the rich to cover up the damage caused by the harsh soaps then used in Britain. jorda nino jordanino 11.20.12 2:58 pm 8th

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