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Miss Great Britain competition Comes to Southampton
8:12am Thursday 27th December 2007
THESE days beauty contests tend to be frowned upon and have definitely fallen out of favour, but in the Southampton of the 1960s and 1970s it was all very different.
In 1961 Kathleen Blackman a typist in the sales department at the Pirelli-General works in Eastleigh was crowned Cable Queen at a ceremony at the company's sports and social club premises in Lodge Road, Southampton.
Kathleen, who was chosen from seven contestants, kept the title in the family. She was crowned by Marion Robinson who, as well as being her predecessor for 1960, was her elder sister.
The picture above was taken almost a decade later showing that swimsuits, big hair styles and stiletto heels were the fashion for the finalists in the South of England heat of the Miss Great Britain competition, believed to have been held at the Royal Pier ballroom in Southampton.
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