Olywn Palmer in her salon

ID: A lady turns and looks at the camera as she puts curlers in a lady's hair. The woman is seated in front of a sink and mirror in a hairdressing salon. Olwyn Palmer is pictured here hard at work in her hair salon in Everton in the 1950s. Its prime location opposite Goodison Park, Everton Football Club’s ground, meant that she regularly styled the hair of the players’ glamorous wives. Olwyn grew up in Anfield and became a hairdressing apprentice aged 13 at a salon in Robson Street, Everton in 1939. However, it was bombed during the blitz soon after. Later, after spotting an advertisement in the Liverpool Echo she became an apprentice for five years at Manny Newman’s salon, Priory Road, Anfield. Her wage was 2 shillings rising to 7 shillings and 6 pence. By 1949 Olwyn was finally able set up her own salon where she stayed for 15-20 years, later retiring aged 87.