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These girls have taken their first steps in a bid to become Miss Madison 1987. The trio, from the first heat held in Newcastle, go forward to the area final next month
Miss UK, Della Dolan, aged 20 from Grimsby, prepares for next months MIss World contest at a Marbella hideaway. 25th October 1982
Unsinkable swimsuits worn by Jean Marsh and Lillemor Knudson. September 1952 P017653
Top glamour model Stephanie McLean posing on a sailboat January 1975 75-00129
Diana, Princess of Wales on holiday in Nevis with Prince William. January 1993
Diana, Princess of Wales on holiday in Nevis with her sons. January 1993
Jean Rogers (23) of Liverpool, won the first heat in the Miss Blackpool £ 1000 bathing beauty contest in an old swimsuit after hitch-hiking from Liverpool. 14th June 1956
Fashion shoot for models wearing swimsuits. They are, Gioia Cecil Bull, Hilda Dabby, Caroline Murphy, Janine Lovey and Delia Smith (right). 6th February 1962
Miss World at Utopia Nightclub, Reading, Berkshire. 12th August 1994
Daily Mirror Beach Beauty contest at Blackpool. The participants line up on the beach before the competition, Lancashire. 29th August 1963
Miss World Contestants, Photo-call at the Lyceum Ballroom, London, Friday 12th November 1965. L - R, Miss United Kingdom - Lesley Langley, Miss United States - Dianna Lynn Batts
Miss Blackpool 1963 Beauty Competition won by Cheryl Driscoll 18, and judged by Albert Modley & Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, Thursday 29th August 1963
Four factory girls from Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, playing a game of football on the sands at Blackpool beach in the summer holidays
Actress Pat Kirkwood in Humpty Dumpty, July 1939
Michelle Lane (22) beauty queen, Miss Ayr 1972, pictured in park 19th July 1972. Michelle Rough
Miss World 1975. Miss Puerto Rico, Wilnelia Merced winner of the competition at the Crowning ceremony with the runners up. 17th November 1975
British singer and actor Gary Miller with beauty queens left to right: Gail Sheridan. winner June Cooper and Doreen Nicholson after the competition at Clacton On Sea. 26th June 1958
Model wearing a see through top with bikini bottoms as she poses on a beach in Africa April 1975
Glamour: Beach Fashion at Blackpool. March 1975 75-1705-001
Woman diving into a swimming pool on holiday July 1953 D3732
Woman wearing one piece swimsuit February 1970 P017609
Top glamour model Stephanie McLean posing lying down in a sailboat January 1975 75-00129-001
Diana, Princess of Wales on holiday in Nevis. January 1993
People enjoying the warm weather at Endell Street open air baths, London. 5th August 1954
Jean Richardson, aged 23 from Bath, wears a 1890 bathing costume as she leaps high in the air. She is promoting Weston Rock, part of the Bath Festival, Old Pier, Birnbeck Island Weston-super-Mare
Kirk Douglas selects 21-year-old Marilyn Davies as the winner of the Viking Beauty Contest, run by the Sunday Pictorial. 7th July 1958
Rachel Meritt. 26th July 1984
Holidays, little girl modelling swimsuit. June 1953 D3299-002
A group of friends playing in the sea at Newquay, Cornwall during the Whitsun bank holiday. 22nd June 1952
Miss Blackpool 1971, Beauty Competition Heat 4. Model and winner, Miss Carolyn Moore 18 from Nantwich, Cheshire, pictured with contest judges from the 12th Light Air Defence Regiment. 24th June 1971
Model reminding people to put their clocks forward by one hour at the start of British Summer Time. 27th March 1982
Three friends enjoying a day out at the beach in Margate, Kent during Easter holidays. 26th March 1948
Rosalie Ashley exercising on an ironing board. 12th August 1957
Sunday Pictorial Beach Contest at Whitley Bay, Tyneside. Gordon Peters performs an upside down act to get a kiss from the winner Elizabeth Laws. 3rd August 1958
Sunday Pictorial Beach Contest at Great Yarmouth. The three prize winners left to right: Valerie Stigant (winner), Ragnhild Thedeen of Sweden and Dorothy Annable posing at the waters edge
Marilyn Monroe Contest at Ruislip Lido. 15th July 1958
Sunday Pictorial Pictorial Beach Contest. 15th July 1958
Woman typist working in the sun beside a swimming pool filled with children having fun splashing the water around Boss dictating work to her Sun dress Fashion clothing August 1947
Olympic Games 1948 held at Wembley Stadium British Female Olympic Swimming squad A©Olympic Games 1948 held at Wembley Stadium British Female Olympic Swimming squad © Mirrorpix
Reveille Beachwear Fashion Feature Woman modelling a patchwork one piece swimming costume
Daily Mirror Beach Beauty contest at Blackpool. Winner of the competition Carol Redhead of Poulton La Fylde with her sash and rosebowl after the presentation. 29th August 1963
Participants in the Miss Margate National Bathing Beauty Contest stand in front of the judges during the competition held at Margates Winter Gardens
Woman modelling beachwear c. 1960Woman modelling beachwear c.1960
Woman modelling beachwear in a field during harvest
Miss World 1975. Miss Puerto Rico, Wilnelia Merced winner of the competition at the Crowning ceremony. 17th November 1975
Miss World 1975. Swimwear Line-up 17th November 1975