Cotton Queen Aka Blackpool (1936)

Full title reads: “Blackpool“. Cotton Queen crowned at Blackpool, Lancashire. Beauty Pageant for girls from Northern cotton mill towns. Various shots of glamorous girls walking past audience. They wear long gowns and hold cards with the names of their towns on; Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Leeds etc. Competition is won by Doris Barr of Bolton. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.