Thelma Townsend and a friend at Dame's Delight

Thelma Townsend and a friend at Dame's Delight

A photograph of Thelma Townsend and a friend outside changing cubicles at Dame's Delight bathing place.

1930s

Elizabeth Drury

A black and white photograph of two women kneeling on the grass in front of wooden changing cubicles. Both women have light-toned skin and smile widely at the camera. The woman on the left is Thelma Townsend, who has dark, curly shoulder-length hair. She is wearing a one piece halter-neck swimming costume which has a striped top-half and a single-coloured bottom half in the shape of a skirt. The woman on the right rests her hand on Thelma's shoulder. She has lighter, chin-length hair and is wearing a one-piece swimming costume which has a pattern of diagonal stripes. The swimming costume has spaghetti straps and a scoop neckline and forms a skirt in the bottom half.