Cabaret dancer, eighteen year old Ann Sullivan enjoys a smoke on her way to work by underground. For two shows a night and one on Saturdays she is paid £12 a week.
Bert Hardy, “This Is How the Chorus Lives,” Picture Post, 1952
Holiday makers enjoying a donkey ride on the beach at Blackpool
Ronald Startup, “The Story of Blackpool Tower,” Picture Post, July 11th, 1953
Two women with a sign advertising a bathing beauty contest, on the promenade at Blackpool, Lancashire, July 1954
John Chillingworth, “Blackpool,” Picture Post, July 31st, 1954
Mechanic Eileen Hayman, 17, listening for leaks in an inner tube at her father's garage in Ipswich, Suffolk, October 1951
Journalist Jocasta Innes testing an "Automat Micro Vibrator" at a supermarket in Kensington, London, 1958
Girls in hoods and capes as they make their way along a pier to take part in daily dancing lessons. The girls are evacuees now studying at a school in Cornwall, England, August 1941.
Models Valerie Carton and Patricia Webb hooking wooden ducks at a fun fair in Battersea Park, London
Carl Sutton, “The Fun of the Fair in 3-D,” Picture Post, June 20, 1953
Dancers backstage between shows at Ciro's Club on Orange Street, London
Bert Hardy, “Cabaret Time in London,” Picture Post, February 3, 1950
Jean Richards and Marguerite Lynd warm themselves in front of a roaring camp fire during their holiday in the English countryside
Thurston Hopkins, “Two Girls and a Sleeper Van,” Picture Post, August 7, 1954
Two women on holiday lying in a Dormobile in a field of curious cows
Thurston Hopkins, “Two Girls and a Sleeper Van,” Picture Post, August 7, 1954
David E. Scherman, “Liquid Stockings,“ Life, September 1941
Welsh model and showgirl Mandy Rice-Davies, London, July 1963
Showgirls limber up in their digs before a performance, 1959
Teenage hairdresser Betty Burden from Birmingham waters the flowers that add a dash of color to the courtyard at the back of her home
Bert Hardy, "Millions Like Her," Picture Post, January 13, 1951
Judy Dunlop, a participant in the Holiday Girl Beauty Competition at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, putting on her lipstick in the King's library
Thurston Hopkins, "TV Takes a Holiday in Brighton: Brighton Belles," Picture Post, August 8, 1953
Sixteen year-old hairdresser Betty Burden relaxes at home
Bert Hardy, “Millions Like Her,” Picture Post, January 13, 1951
A girl from Wakefield Seaside School practicing cartwheels on the beach at Hornsea
Haywood Magee, “Wakefield Goes to Sea,” Picture Post, Aug 7, 1948