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  • A rack of quintessentially English 'saucy postcards' are on display in Scarborough, the northern seaside town. Telling jokes to send back to friends and family, they using cartoon characters of buxom women, hen-pecked husbands or sexually-frustrated young men, the humour is bawdy and cheeky - the epitome of seaside holiday kitsch. The best-known saucy seaside postcards were created by Bamforths (founded 1870) and despite the decline in popularity of postcards that are overtly tacky, postcards continue to be a significant economic and cultural aspect of British seaside tourism. In the 1950s, Bamforth postcards were among the most popular of the 18 million items purchased at British resorts.
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  • At a beauty talent contest, the finalists line up to await the judges decision. The girls are dressed in all their finery with dresses, pinned up hair and sashes as they're seated in the gym at the Bedford-King Recreation Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The black community hold annual events here including sports competitions and occasions such this pageant where the girls and also boys prove their talents and potential. One young lady however, sees fit to poke her tongue out at the viewer in a cheeky display of humour and character. Her rivals seem oblivious and unaware of her irreverence but perhaps the judge is watching and her chances of winning are now impossible!
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  • Schoolchildren of many ages and ethnic backgrounds spend their morning break-time in their school playground in inner-city London. Faces of a variety of skin colours and expressions look to the viewer as the kids delight in having their picture taken. Their cheeky, mischievous grins make us smile as we remember our own pre-technology childhoods, an era before computers took our natural sense of outdoor fun away.
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  • Winning and losing contestants line up to receive their prizes at a gymkhana in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The point of focus is a young cheeky-faced girl adorned with a winners' special rosette and she grins cheekily to her friend alongside. Far right another girl less satisfied inspects her own rosette. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term that referred to a place where sporting events took place to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on children's participation (such as those organised here by the Pony Club). Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag race, and pole bending.
    gymkhana01-17-09-1999.jpg
  • A young Chinese boy pulls a face on top of a lion at the HSBC bank in Central, the day after the Handover of sovereignty from Britain to China, on 30th June 1997, in Hong Kong, China. Midnight signified the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
    hong_kong_handover-30-06-1997_5.jpg
  • A pre-pubescent voyeur peers over a clump of vegetation to spy on four beautiful women lying face-down in a sandy dune near the seaside resort of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
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  • A 4 year-old boy holds an umbrella outdoors in family woods.
    jamie_umbrella01-20-04-2014.jpg
  • Young foreign tourists hiding behind a sad-looking Smurf character in Trafalgar Square, London.
    smurf_trafalgar_sq07-19-12-2013.jpg
  • Whilst on a cruise aboard the Fun Ship Ecstasy during a voyage from Miami around the Gulf of Mexico, passengers enjoy a sexual game on deck beneath a strong tropical sun. Male contestants have lined up to be inspected by a blindfolded lady wearing a swim suit and painted nails who is required to identify her own husband by feeling his lower body and torso. Howls of laughter emit from the other men as the lady realises that this is indeed her own spouse who stands on a chair, his bulging crotch at chest height. She smiles to herself, still blind beneath a towel and the moment is funny enough for all to enjoy a happy hour of organised entertainment on deck. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carrying 2,052 passengers and 920 crew belonging to Vegas-style Carnival Cruise lines.
    carnival_cruises02-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • A 16 year-old teenager shows his 4 year-old cousin his smartphone on the family home sofa.
    sam_jamie05-20-04-2014.jpg
  • Portrait of holiday park pioneer Sir Fred Pontin while at home in central London. ..Sir Frederick William Pontin (24 October 1906 - 30 September 2000) was born in West Ham, London, and was knighted in 1976. He died in Blackpool aged 93. He had a successful career in the city's Stock Exchange. He attended Sir George Monoux Grammar School in Walthamstow. During World War II, he was involved in helping to establish hostels for construction workers. Based on this experience, he decided to move into the holiday camp business after the war. He formed a company to buy an old disused camp at Brean Sands near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset in 1946. This was the start of the company known as Pontin's. He went on holidays to Ireland.
    fred_pontin01-29-08-1990.jpg
  • An adult business window displays the naughty underwear worn by five mannequin models of a Soho sex shop on Old Compton Street in London's West End. Tilted slightly to the left, we see the 5 models posing in various positions of suggestive stances, all demonstrating the shop's array of erotic clothing for the Good Time Girl! On the far right is the artwork of a topless woman, wearing only knee-length stockings. See from behind, the line-drawing of the female suggests a dancer on a Parisian stage act such as the Folies Bergere or Paradis Latin - variety performances for the male admirer. She looks over her left shoulder as if to wink in our direction, all part of the illusion of coquettish desire and greedy eroticism. Old Compton Street is known for cafes, bars and especially the gay, trans-gender scene and for sellers of erotic toy 'accessories'!
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  • Mannequins wear sexy underwear on display in the window of an adult shop window in London's Old Brompton Street, Soho.
    electricity130-17-01-2008 .jpg
  • Cheeky young 1990s Afro-American cheerleader girls practice their routine at the Bedford-King Recreation Center, on 5th November 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    atlanta_cheerleaders-05-11-1995.jpg
  • A young boy looks carefully at the many saucy postcards on sale outside a seaside shop, on 19th July 1993, in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. Telling jokes to send back to friends and family, they using cartoon characters of buxom women, hen-pecked husbands or sexually-frustrated young men, the humour is bawdy and cheeky - the epitome of seaside holiday kitsch. The best-known saucy seaside postcards were created by Bamforths (founded 1870) and despite the decline in popularity of postcards that are overtly tacky, postcards continue to be a significant economic and cultural aspect of British seaside tourism. In the 1950s, Bamforth postcards were among the most popular of the 18 million items purchased at British resorts.
    saucy_postcards-21-08-1993.jpg
  • A cheeky young boy climbs over a back yard gate armed with a homemade bow and arrow in a back street in Liverpool, England. His homemade toy is the antithesis of what a wealthy lad might wish for in 21st century Britain when gadgets were all a kid wants and games outside have become rare and uncool. But this is still the early 1990s in times of recession when a make do and mend philosophy means families improvise with what they have and wealth is out of reach for many.
    bow_arrow-08-08-1991.jpg
  • Reading his newspaper to pass the time, a businessman in traditional Gulf state thawb and agal headdress awaits his flight from Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. With a plastic bag alongside containing Duty Free purchases and with the cheeky face for the Adams kids clothing brand for his young family, the man studies the latest news from the Gulf states and further Middle-East region before boarding his airline departure, seen here months before the terrorist attacks on America that changed the public's attitude to flying on commercial airliners.
    bahrain_airport_passenger01-21-04-20...jpg
  • Empty window display of angular coloured shop frontage in London's West Dulwich for a liquidated childrens' clothing shop.
    cheeky_monkey04-22-12_2008.jpg
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