Bert Hardy's photographs - in pictures

British sailors taking shore leave on Gibraltar visit the Suiza Bar to watch a Spanish dancer perform. The entertainers were under contract and had return over the border by 11 o'clock Photograph: Bert Hardy/Getty Images

Millions Like Her, Birmingham, 1951 Photograph: Bert Hardy /Getty Images

Pretty Girls of Leicester, 1948 Photograph: Bert Hardy /Getty Images

People bid farewell to their loved ones at Paddington station in London during the second world war, 23 May 1942 Photograph: Bert Hardy/Getty Images

Too Many Spivs, 1954 Photograph: Bert Hardy /Getty Images

Maidens in Waiting, Blackpool, 1951 Photograph: Bert Hardy /Getty Images

Children in the Gorbals, Glasgow, 1948 Photograph: Bert Hardy /Getty Images

Two women examine buttons at Lock and Company, a shop in Piccadilly, London, in 1953 Photograph: Bert Hardy /Gety Images

Helen Bush, whose mother does not approve of evacuation of children to the country, helps Parson French salvage clothes from a bombed house in London's East End Photograph: Bert Hardy/Getty Images

Grand Hotel, Torquay, 1947 Photograph: Bert Hardy /Getty Images