This is a photo of my great-great aunt, Mary Morris, who ran a shop in Manchester (UK) wearing her clean white apron.
(The "uniform" of that time)
She died before I was born and so I never met her, but from the photograph, she seems quite a formidable woman.
She was probably a very kind and gentle person, although, judging by her stern look, I would imagine that if she found any young lad shoplifting, she would not hessitate in putting him straight over her knee and spanking him!
Photo taken around 1930.
