Young Ian Archibald ponders the consequences of a complex critical study of beauty contestants during the Miss TV Times finals in London. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images). 30 July 1971...
Julie Desmond, a scantily clad, 24 year old model, climbs out of the back of a Russian Moskvich 427 car, at a car trade show. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images). Circa 1971...
Film technicians at Pinewood Studios set up a miniature air crash sequence for the Jack Gold film [The Medusa Touch], using scale models of a Boeing 747 and a skyscraper. (Photo by Alan F. Davis/Keystone/Getty Images). 9th August 1977...
Lucie Clayton instructs pupils in the art of correct posture by balancing a glass and book on their heads at her finishing school in Old Cavendish Street, London. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 25th November 1936...
Dried and shrivelled corpses, some fully clothed and some in coffins, line the wall of a vault of the Pantheon Cemetery on the summit of Cerro del Trozado in Mexico. They were removed from the crypts because of non-payment of cemetery fees. The hot dry air stopped the bodies from rotting. Most of them were placed here between the turn of the century and WW I. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955...
Manuela Vargas at a dress rehearsal for [The Tigress of the Flamenco] given by her company at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. (Photo by Dennis Oulds/Central Press/Getty Images). 4th November 1964...
Actress Athene Seyler attempts to contort her body, in a scene from the show, [Skin Deep]. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images). Circa 1928...
Burdened with a shawl full of her belongings, a woman stops for a rest on the road between Julaca and Puno in Peru. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955...
A policeman stands by a burning car, set alight during a communist march in the East End of London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). Circa 1936...
Two elderly men smoking pipes of opium on a terrace in Korea. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images). August 1950...