Birmingham Gallery

Beauty Contests - Miss UK - Blackpool

Fifteen girls in bathing costumes were chosen at Blackpool's Open Air Bath to take part in the finals of Miss United Kingdom 1967.
From left to right: Vicki Hayward (Miss Birmingham); Linda Foulder (Miss Bolton); Marion Jenkins (Miss Bristol); Jeanette Meakins (Miss Central London); Jennifer Lewis (Miss England); Grace Baxter (Miss Hull); Barbara Ponsford (Miss Leeds); Jacqui McCann (Miss Liverpool); Jennifer Gurley (Miss Manchester); Lena McGarvey (Miss Scotland); Nina Scott (Miss Sheffield); Diane Grey (Miss Streatham); Joan Ashley (Miss Tottenham); Carol Richmond (Miss Wakefield) and Denise Page (Miss Wales)

© PA Archive/Press Association Images

Fashion - 1977 New Look collection - Models Carla Dwyer and Olga Draper - Woolworth

Models Carla Dwyer (left), 19, of Wolverhampton, and Olga Draper, 20, of Solihull, wearing white cotton peasant blouses in an off-the-shoulder style with Broderie Anglais Trim. The blouses, together with matching red polyester head scarves, are from the New Look collection of fashions for 1977 from Woolworth and were on display in a preview in Birmingham

© PA/Press Association Images

Transport - Last Mini at Longbridge

Workers cheering as the 5, 387, 862nd and final classic Mini rolls off the production line, at the MG Rover Group factory in Longbridge, Birmingham. After 41 years of continuous production and nearly 140 different models, one of Britain's best-loved cars is being superceded by a new version made by German car giant BMW which will be produced at the Cowley works in Oxford

© PA/EMPICS