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Jazz orchestra by the pool on board the MauretaniaA jazz orchestra entertains passengers by the pool on board the ocean liner, the Mauretania, just one of the many amusements available. Date: 1931
Woman police officer Annie Matthews, Hyde Park, LondonWoman police officer Annie Matthews (nickname Big Ben), on duty at the childrens lido in Hyde Park, London. Before joining the Met Police, Annie worked as a housemaid at Glamis Castle in Scotland
The Bystander - Surf riders front coverFront cover of The Bystander featuring an illustration by C. Rebel Stanton of three girls in red bathing costumes surf riding - a sort of combined forerunner of surfing and water skiing. Date: 1929
Veet advertisement, 1926Advertisement for Veet hair removal cream from 1926 - don t let disfiguring growths of superfluous hair destroy your charm and daintiness any longer
The Water Nymph by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl paddling in the sea. Date: 1933
The Mountbattens at Monte CarloLord and Lady Louis Mountbatten pictured with their elder daughter Patricia at Monte Carlo heading it appears from their swimwear, to the beach. Date: 1931
Mercedes Gleitze (1900-1981) - British professional swimmer. She was the first person to swim the Straits of Gibraltar and the first British woman to swim the English Channel
Group of Female Bathers at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. Date: circa 1909
Wish You Were Here postcardSeaside postcard featuring a woman in a yellow swimsuit sunbathing in a rather uncomfortable rocky spot on an unidentified beach
Swimmers at Thorness Bay, Isle of Wight, 1920sA group of women pose for a photograph on the beach at Thorness Bay on the Isle of Wight. The back of the photograph describes the day as a picnic for Gs 21st birthday. G is fourth from left
French actresses in swimsuits at Great Fosters, EghamBetty Spell and Reine Paulet, actresses playing in Paris in London at the Comedy Theatre in 1932, pictured visiting Great Fosters in Egham
Beauty Contest Participant and Proud ParentsA Bathing Beauty Contest Participant and her Proud (if slightly shy) Parents! Date: circa 1949
Blazers & Swimwear - Summer fashions. Good Housekeeping. July 1931. Date: 1931
Advert for Bathing SuitsAn advert for the latest range of bathing suits available at Debenhams. Date: 1932
Hemline RegulationsA female swimmer having the hemline of her bathing costume inspected at Palm Beach. Date: circa 1925
Summer fashion ideas for women: a plage suit with a lozenge-patterned jerkin, and two swimsuits. Date: 1954
Page of fashion adverts - June 1921Page of four fashion adverts for womenand children's clothing, from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, June 1921
Ladies undressing in a bathing machine. Date: circa 1910
A portrait of Eleanor Black, an American Bathing Beauty, 1926 Date: 1926
A sketch of a lady with an umbrella in the summer sun on a beach in a bathing suit, 1926 Date: 1926
Some ideas for summer beach wear - bathing dresses, wraps and caps, 1926 Date: 1926
A bathing beauty wearing a bathing suit and wrap from Selfridges, London, 1926 Date: 1926
Young, muscular man on the beachinsertcaption Date: circa 1920s
Colour photograph of a family on the beach at Bognor Regis, 1920s. Date: 1920s
Annette KellermanAnnette Marie Sarah Kellerman (1886 - 1975), Australian swimmer, film star, and writer. One of the first women to wear a one-piece bathing costume, causing a minor scandal at the time
Lady Lettice Lygon by Olive SnellLady Lettice Cotterell (nÚÑáLygon) (1906-1973), Wife of Sir Richard Charles Geers Cotterell, 5th Bt; daughter of 7th Earl Beauchamp. Lygon family possible inspiration for Waughs Brideshead Revisited
Ponds Cold Cream as sun protectionAdvertisement for Ponds Cold Cream, suggesting that, if applied before exposure (to the sun), prevents the skin from becoming dry and burnt. I m not entirely convinced by this claim. Date: 1930
Civilians filling sandbags for air raid shelters 1939Civilians, including females in bikini tops and a man in a suit, working together to fill sandbags for use in the construction of public air raid shelters. September 1939
Bathers at the rooftop pool of the Piccadilly HotelA group of bathers, having taken advantage of the bathing-pool at the Piccadilly Hotel, taking a cooling drink during the heat wave in London in August 1932. Date: 1932
Hot Weather Habits At Major J. B. Paget sPage from The Tatler with photographs recording a bathing party held at Ibstock Place, Roehampton, home of Major and Mrs J. B. Paget
Ensign Print Wallet for Photographs and negatives - processed by T W Salmon & Son, Photographic Chemists, Norton and Stockton-on-Tees. circa 1920s
Jolly crowd in the seaA jolly crowd of bathers wave at the camera as they stand in the sea at an unidentified seaside resort. Date: 1920s
The Taverna of the Excelsior Palace, Venice LidoLuncheon at the Taverna restaurant of the Excelsior Palace Hotel at the fashionable Venice Lido. Diners were encouraged to visit the Taverna in their swimwear or beach pyjamas
Impromptu dance to gramophone at river resortImpromptu dance to the gramophone at a river resort. Date: 1933
Miss S. T. Phillips playing tennis at the Venice LidoKeeping cool in the lawn tennis court: Miss S. T. Phillips has a game in her bathing suit. Those staying at the Venice Lido regularly went from beach to tennis court in their bathing suit. Date: 1927
Bar at the Chambre D Amour, BiarritzBeach bar at the Chambre D Amour, Biarritz. Note the picture of the pelato player behind the bar, the traditional game of the Basque region. Date: 1934
Personalities on the beach -- Hon Mrs Richard Norton, the wife of Lord Grantleys heir. Date: 1930
Personalities beside the pool and on the beach -- Lady Cynthia Mosley by the bathing pool, Cap d Antibes (top) and Cocktail Time
People on Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Date: circa 1950
Knitted swim wear 1940Page from a magazine showing a model wearing a knitted bikini. Date: 1940
Woman in a swimming costume on the beach at the seaside. Date: circa early 1920s
Bright Young Things at the Venice LidoFrom left, Alan Parsons, drama critic for the Daily Mail and husband of Viola Tree, Zita Jungman, Mr Robin D Erlanger (formerly Myrtle Farquarson)
The Lido-Laters by Howard K. ElcockFashionable society bathing and lying in the sun at the equally fashionable Venice Lido, under the familiar striped cabanna and parasols. Date: 1929
Lunch at Taverna of the Excelsior Palace Hotel, Venice LidoImpression of the Taverna restaurant, part of the huge Excelsior Palace Hotel on the beach at the Venice Lido. Diners rarely dressed for lunch
Sea Suits for Sunning and Swimming 1931Clothes for swimming and sunbathings, two leisure preoccupations of the 1930s. The gaily coloured outfit on the left in striped blue and white heavy cotton has braces to the trousers
Beach fashions for women 1930Model wearing the latest fashionable beach wear. 1930
Advert for Lillywhites beach fashions 1930A model wearing three styles for beach wear for summer 1930. 1930
Beach fashions, 1938A variety of beach fashions for 1938 worn by smart society in the smartest holiday resorts. Top left is Miss Jeannette Fuqua at Biarritz in a two-piece