Mrs Smith
/The Wonderful and Very Sexy Mrs Smith - Wives and Girlfriends
Jennifer Taylor
/Looking For a Lamb
Anticipating the early arrival of spring, JENNIFER APRIL ANN TAYLOR went looking for a lamb.
The farmer's creaking old shepherd went looking for his rum flask. He was once a sailor, but he still left things lying about.
Jennifer didn't find any lambs; it was a bit too early.
The old shepherd didn't find his rum flask, either, but he found Jennifer. They came face to face in a misty meadow.
"Great cucumbers,'" said the old shepherd, "who needs rum, me beauty?"
“Good grief," said Jennifer, breaking into a fast trot, "who needs help? I do."
But as she leapt the gate the old shepherd lurched into it, and she was saved by the bong. He didn't come to until Jennifer was safely home and eating shepherd's pie.
Beautiful Britons No 207 - February 1973
Melanie Cooper
/Fun In The Sun
There's no doubt about it, said Big Garth to Little Garth, when the sun is flaming hot, you feel more like fun than you do when it's flaming freezing. You're so right, spoke up MELANIE COOPER before Little Garth could get word in, the sun just makes you feel terribly gay.
Little Garth then said there was nothing terrible about it, so Big Garth hit him over his bonce with a large fist, and with hardly another sound Little Garth was driven deep into the soft sand dune.
Oh, that was funny, said Melanie, where did Little Garth go to?
Up spoke the almost muffled voice of Little Garth. I say, it isn't half dark down here.
Beautiful Britons No 155 - October 1968
Alexandra Holmes
/After Hours – Part 2
Well, you all clicked that like button and, as promised, more from Alex.
What a fantastic ToCo model Alex would have made, with that all knowing half smile she has.
More from Alex in a few days’ time.
Mrs Smith
/Mrs Smith – Wives and Girlfriends
More pictures of Mrs Smith of Luton. Scanned prints, all taken during the 1980’s
These are great home-produced ToCo fun. Lucky old Mr Smith!
Amy
/Amy – Wives and Girlfriends
Amy had a stint at modelling a few years ago then, like many, gave it up.
I am told she was a popular on leg sites, as she has got very shapely thighs. I don’t recognise her, but maybe some of you will.
She is a wife or a girlfriend of somebody, but these early modelling pictures were sent to me by a friend of hers.
Doesn’t she look great in her old college uniform. Let’s hope there is more to come!
Helen Candlish and Jean Dee
/GEE UP!
It was the sort of day to make the girls lively, all the sun and fresh air inspiring blonde HELEN CANDLISH and brunette JEAN DEE to practise the egg-and-spoon race for the forthcoming fete. And other races too.
"Gee up?" cried Helen.
"Look, I never was intended to win the Grand National," said Jean, "so just watch it with your spurs, will you?"
Oh well, over the meadows they galloped, like, and in the fields they skipped, and the young farmers stood around and said they were the best thing that had happened to agriculture since Cleopatra.
We don't feel we can argue.
Spick No 246 - May 1974
Alexandra Holmes
/After Hours - Wives and Girlfriends
These pictures were sent in by Alex’s husband, Rob. Rob says Alex loves to dress up and do a bit of home modelling for fun. Rob’s hobby is photography; mind you, yours would be too with a wife like Alex!
Alex is from Sheffield, is a mum and works part time as a cleaner.
Alex can clean my house any day she likes!
Seamed stockings and proper knickers complete the perfect ensemble for aficionados.
If you'd like to see more of Alex, then please hit the Like button. She might just return and surprise you some more.
Dorothy Bendal and Kay Bendall
/Dot and Dash
Housewife DOROTHY BENDALL is Dot to all her friends. Dot is happy, lively and fun, but all the dash around the house comes from her daughter KAY. She's helter-skelter youth while Dot is jolly Mum.
They're more like sisters, actually. They go to dances together and run for a bus together. They live in Hampshire and make every day full of fun and giggles.
Hazel Poole
/Bingo
" I say," said the smitten bystander.
A perfectly exquisite pair of legs had just gone by. They belonged to mini-skirted housewife HAZEL POOLE, and the bystander, who wasn't doing anything except waiting for a bus, felt floored. Gad, bingo! he thought.
Hazel's lovely legs go wherever she goes, which makes her ever so good to look at when she's out shopping, or at home trying on a new pair of stocking-tops.
"Are you engaged, wonderful one?" asked the bystander, forgetting about his bus and catching her up.
Hazel coolly informed him she was married and that her husband packed rather a large wallop, and the bystander, a fine upstanding young bloke, sighed and said, "Well, anytime your lovely legs aren't doing anything special please come and stand them in an empty picture frame of mine."
"Oh, sauce box, are we ?" said Hazel and pulled his hat over his eyes.
Beautiful Britons No 240 - July 1975
Linda White
/What's New?
What's New?
Nothing really. Everything is merely an improvement on the old. Irrelevantly, we'd like to mention that
LINDA WHITE is the most photogenic hair stylist we know.
Beautiful Britons No 122 - January 1966
Jill Millward
/Quite A Change
When the good old Windmill closed its doors and its nonstop revue disappeared into the pages of exotic history, one of its youngest girls decided she wasn't going to queue up at the agencies to find similar work.
Not a bit of it. JILL MILLWARD decided on a complete change of occupation. Know what she is now? A children's nurse. Gad, those lucky children. Wonder if they realise how good life is to them?
Span No 167 - July 1968
Janet Neill and Sadie Milligan
/An Update from Saltcoats
Janet Neill was born in 1937 in Kilwinning, just a couple of miles northeast of Saltcoats. She married George Fleming on 30th March 1959 at Barony Church in Ardrossan, which was recently sold and is now being redeveloped. At the time of her marriage to George, Janet was living at 4 Galloway Place - a small, terraced house not far from the sea front in Saltcoats - and was working as a Dental Nurse. What’s interesting to note on her marriage certificate is that Sadie Milligan is one of her witnesses.
Sadie (Sarah) Milligan was born in 1938 in Ardrossan. She married Patrick McAteer on 4th August 1962, and was married at the same church as Janet in Ardrossan. At the time of her marriage, she was living at 3 Caledonia Road Ardrossan - though it looks to me like the original house is now gone. Her profession is shown as an Explosives Process Worker; there was a large explosive factory in Ardeer just south of Saltcoats.
I often wonder, as I put things together and look at the local area, how they met and became friends. Janet was on the scene much earlier than Sadie, first appearing in May 1956. Sadie’s first pictures were not seen until June 1958, some 2 years later. Sadie, of course, was roughly 2 years younger than Janet, but both girls would have been about 19 or 20 years old for their first photo shoots. It certainly does make you think who else might have worked at the Explosives Factory, as it was such a large local employer. Julie Scott appeared in a couple of two-girl sets with Sadie, so perhaps she worked at the Explosives Factory as well.
You can just image the talk that went on during breaks about showing your stockings and knickers to a local photographer for some extra cash! I wonder if they are both still with us; Janet would be about 83 now and just full of great stories to tell us all.
The pictures of Janet are taken from Span No 54 February 1959 - just a month before she was married; what a lucky man George Fleming was!
The pictures of Sadie are from Spick No 105 and Beautiful Britons No 82, both published in August 1962 - the same month that Sadie was married. Oddly, both sets are of her in Directoire Knickers and in magazines published in the summer; not sure what that was saying to Patrick, her new husband!
Both girls though went on to appear in ToCo publications after they were married, so it was presumably something that their husbands approved of.
From Wikipedia
The Ardeer peninsula was the site of a massive dynamite manufacturing plant built by Alfred Bernhard Nobel. Having scoured the country for a remote location to establish his explosive factory, Nobel finally acquired 100 acres from the Earl of Eglinton, and established the British Dynamite Factory in 1871, and went on to create what was described then as the largest explosives factory in the world. The factory had its own jetty on the River Garnock in Irvine Harbour serving ships disposing of time expired explosives or importing materials for the works.
At its peak, the site employed almost 13,000 workers in a fairly remote location and had its own railway station. The station was used solely for workers and those special visitors with business in the ICI plant, and was never a regular passenger stop. Until the mid-1960s, there were two trains per day to transport workers. Although the line no longer exists, the abandoned platform remains, hidden beneath dense undergrowth.
Many thanks to David for researching this.
Marilyn Ward
/Cover Girl
Making our cover look colourful and fetching this month - at least, that was our intention - is Bournemouth boutique girl MARILYN WARD. Marilyn was a model before she took over her boutique.
We usually buy our clothes from Ernest's in the High Street not far from here, but if Marilyn would only stock bowler hats and pin-stripes we'd give up going to Ernest's.
Ernest is quite nice and always very polite. Nothing is too much trouble when he's explaining and illustrating the merits of a forty-guinea waistcoat.
"Look, we don't wear waistcoats."
"Then sir is losing the opportunity to become utterly ravishing, sir." "Look, we bet Marilyn Ward wouldn't try to sell us forty-guinea waistcoats when all we want is a pair of socks with a red stripe.' "Sir is joking, of course. Sir is vainly resisting. Hold him, Montgomery, hold him, Lancelot. There. Now what does sir think of himself? Sir looks beautiful. How can sir think of mere socks when sir is adorned in a waistcoat like that?"
"All right, you win. We'll have it on the never-never. Put it in some brown paper and deliver it. We're off to Bournemouth to buy a pair of socks."
Beautiful Britons No 155 - October 1968