Sat with friends she is dressed immaculately.
Fresh faced she wears a fitted, beautiful jacket, and necklace. Her appearance is that of a Vogue magazine model.
This how many women once dressed for a drink at the local pub.
The moment in time is in an exhibition of one hundred "lost" photographs of northern life in the 1950s and 60s which opened on Thursday and will run until November 14th.
They were taken by George Shepherd, now 88.
They capture Eccles, Salford, and Manchester amid the austerity of the post-war era where people still found joy and pride in their appearance amongst demolition and change.
The emergence of chic fashion, music, and 'big hair' for women in the 1960s is also caught.
The wonderful collection was retrieved from a bag of negatives stuffed in an Asda shopping bag which was destined for the bin.
George's daughter, Angela, saved them, recognised their importance and two years ago staged a small exhibition of about 25 pictures in a tiny former shop on Eccles Precinct.
But the incredible record of social history will now take up an entire room at Salford Museum and Art Gallery.
George's subjects were ordinary people - factory workers having a break; Whit Walks; people looking glamorous and dressed immaculately for a pint or sherry in a pub; raucous house parties; and a Bank Holiday beach packed with day-trippers.
The drummer of a "beat band" called the VIPs plays a rhythm.
A little girl does not flinch as a pigeon lands on her arm in Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens as she enjoys an ice cream. Possible her grandmother in a fur-collared coat looks on. They stand opposite Woolworths.
An entire family gather outside The Medina restaurant in Liverpool Road, Eccles about to mark a special occasion.
Two beautiful babies, George's nieces, Sandra and Carol, are pictured on the doorstep of a house in Lincoln Street.
George began taking photographs regularly from the age of 18 whilst doing his National Service. He used a Box Brownie camera at first, then a 35mm Voigtlander and finally a Praktica.
He would use his natural charm - later an asset as a sales rep for the Co-op selling furniture - to persuade people to let him take their pictures,
.He says modestly: "I would wander around and I must have been lucky, there were so many characters and kids in the street to photograph - I must have knocked on doors as well, walked in pubs. People would say 'oh certainly, come in' and I would go back home and develop them."
George was entirely self-trained as a photographer. His cousin, Albert, built him a dark room in a spare bedroom of his home, and his recording of his local streets continued for decades.
Angela said: "I've not seen any better pictures of northern life that is not 'grim up north' northern life, which this isn't.
"Northern photographers get typecast as street photographers taking pictures of scruffy kids and demolition. Yes, there is a bit of that, but this exhibition shows a vibrant life. People were proud, smartly dressed. "
Amy Brunn, exhibitions manager at the museum said of George's collection: "He has captured the happiness of people at that time, which is something which I think might be missing in other archives. "
It is hoped that the images will one day be published in a book.
