These are the lovely girls with their eyes  on the coveted Miss Examiner 1989  crown.

And here they are getting  ready for the grand  final.

They are, from left (back) Alexandra Fenn, Corrine  Dickinson, Cheryl Lockwood, Mandy Bottomley,  Louise Gunson and Claire Lee; middle: Leanne  Slater, Michelle Maude, Shivonne Smith, Amanda  Palmer and Sadiie Lewis; front, Susan Pickford,  Tracey Mosley, Marietta Browne,  Dyan Sutton,  Vanessa Moore, Salena McDade and Samantha  Nightingale.

Nostalgia: Events in Huddersfield in August, 1989
Green Party members Tony Holt, left, and Terry Barnes load the skip. Members of the Green Party were organising a waste paper collection every two months at Berry Brow flats - in the first one they collected between two to three tons. Mr Nick Harvey, of Huddersfield Green Party, said that residents at Holme Park Court and Bishop's Court flats and other people from the Berry Brow area had helped to fill the skip in two hours. The paper would soon end up as items such as paper towels
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The eventual winner was to be Sadie Lewis – she’s  on the right end of the middle row.

The contestants are seen outside the Adega cabaret  club in Byram Court during a break in the contest  preview.

1989’s beauty extravaganza was on August 30