Miss Great Britain

Yesterday I was in Morecambe again. I was walking along the promenade when I saw this.....

and recognized it as the location of the open-air swimming baths I had seen in old photos..... 

Between 1956 and 1989, this pool was the unlikely venue for the Miss Great Britain contest. Thousands of people came to watch.



Wikipedia tells me The contests were aimed at a family audience.....women could have fun backing their favourites and young girls could aspire to be a bathing beauty when they grew up. 

Yeah, right. The look on this man's face tells me otherwise.