Contestants in the Long and Lovely Hair Contest, 1985. Photograph by Epoque, 1985.

London (Carmelite House, [E.C.4]) : Epoque, [1985]

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 12.6 x 20.3 cm

The long and the short. Pictured at a London hotel, yesterday, was little six-year-old Leigh-Ann Probert from Bracknell, Berkshire, looking out in the centre of the long-haired lovelies ... the undiiputed champion in the longest hair section was Elizabeth Harding (left) from Pontefract, West Yorkshire ... Epoque copyright

At the Strand Palace Hotel, London, April 1985

Wellcome Collection 2822674i