A photograph of a group of women in a beauty contest, taken in January 1936 by Edward G Malindine for the Daily Herald. The women stand with sheets of paper in front of the lower half of their faces. Ernest Heasman, on the left, is judging them in a competition to find the six women with the most beautiful eyes in Britain.

A photograph of a group of women in a beauty contest, taken in January 1936 by Edward G Malindine for the Daily Herald.

The women stand with sheets of paper in front of the lower half of their faces. Ernest Heasman, on the left, is judging them in a competition to find the six women with the most beautiful eyes in Britain.