Antique & Vintage Photographs

This is a silver gelatin photograph that is unmounted and is approximately 10 x 8 inches (254x203mm).

It shows a full-length portrait of a woman, identified on the reverse as Betty Spink. She is pictured sitting on a diving board, wearing a one-piece swimsuit, high-heeled peep-toe shoes, and a flower in her hair. A pasted newspaper clipping on the reverse identifies Miss Spink as a 21-year-old dancing teacher from Halifax who won a heat in the 1948 National Bathing Beauty Contest. The contest, for the title of Miss Great Britain, was organised by the Sunday Dispatch and the Morecambe and Heysham Council. The reverse is stamped by the Sunday Dispatch newspaper and is dated 15th August 1948.