Helen Milligan and Ruth Cavendish

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Fashionable Sports

Out for the pleasure of knocking a ball about, HELEN MILLIGAN is a fashion model and RUTH CAVENDISH is training to become one, so you could say these two sporting lovelies wield a very fashionable forehand.

Both girls are Scots and the reason why they're equipped with racquets but not with tennis outfits is because the summer hasn't arrived in Scotland yet. The grass is still wet and boots still the answer.

But even a boot can fill up with water if you sink it far enough into a watery ditch, and all you can do then if you're a wet-footed Ruth is to get Helen to pull it off for you.

Time out for just sitting and doing nothing except, of course, looking long-legged and cute. There's no doubt that two bonny Scots make an even better picture than one.

Beautiful Britons No 102 - April 1964

Maureen – Private Collection.

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At Home with Maureen

I have many negative sleeves marked as "Maureen," and in some of the pictures, she appears to be wearing a wedding ring. Unfortunately, that is all the information I have. The shots, although occasionally poorly cropped, are very much in the style of ToCo. I have taken the time to improve them, and the results are pleasing. If you would like to see more of Maureen, please show your appreciation by liking or commenting.

Carolyn Rose

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Dancing Dolly

There she was on tiptoe and peeping over the wall, and when we crunched up in our spiked walking boots, she turned her head and said, "Oh good-oh, you're just in time - my hat's blown over the wall and there's a dog trying to eat it."

We thought gad, what an adorable maiden, and what kind of a rotten dog can it be to want to eat the hat of such a lovely-legged dolly as this? Impulsively and gallantly, we jumped over the wall. Immediately we jumped back again. Some dog. What a whopper. Big as a flaming house. Teeth all over the place.

"Oh, my hat," said this adorable maiden.

"You can say that again," said we, "and we'll be far better off buying you a new one than trying to rescue the old one. This way."

So, we took her to a hat shop and then had tea. Her name was CAROLYN ROSE, she's eighteen and is a dancer from Bristol. She wants to go to America, Brazil, Italy, Jamaica and Honolulu. Then when she's seen it all she wants to come back and live in a converted farmhouse with lots of dogs.

None like the one that was making a meal of her hat, we hope.

Beautiful Britons No 169 - December 1969

Anne Scott

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Cosy Corner

Very snugly ensconced in a cosy corner of the lounge is ANNE SCOTT, and there's no one who can decorate a cosy corner quite as photogenically as this lovely lady. Wearing her warm longs, Anne subscribes to the view that comfort is all-embracing when the last breezes of fading winter still blow chill.

Beautiful Britons No 102 - April 1964

Elizabeth Gammage

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Revealing Elizabeth

Tocofan has delivered yet again with some incredible finds, and this time we have 4 even more revealing pictures of the stunning Elizabeth Gammage. A huge shoutout and thanks to tocofan for providing us with these amazing shots.

Elizabeth Gammage

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Mmmm For Mum

Happy wife and proud mother is ELIZABETH GAMMAGE of Bristol, seen not for the first or last time, we hope in our magazines. Liz's currently favourite recreation is pin-up modelling for her husband, who took these latest shots of her.

Liz loves frilly clothes, coffee, and home life, and all her family love Liz.

In relaxing around her house, Liz shows just why she's the perfect pin-up model for enthusiastic photographer husband. Good for Liz.

Span No 103 - March 1963

Lisa Scott

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Cold Day - Warm Girl

Lisa Scott is, without a doubt, an absolute smasher and she always holds a spot in my top 5 ToCo girls. This great shot, which I believe has not been seen before, is from a set that was published in Spick No 185 in April 1969. A big shoutout and thanks to Tocofan for sharing this rare gem. I'm curious, who would make it into your top 5 ToCo girls?

Jennie Piece

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Secretary Bird

Lovely and chirpy, glamorously blonde and deliciously vital is Secretary JENNIE PIECE, who has just moved from the quiet of a Gloucestershire village into a more urbanised area somewhere in Surrey.

Naturally, all the vital male types down this way were more than interested to know about the movements of this dishy bird or dolly bird or whatever. Jennie is certainly way up on the charts when it comes to qualifying as a secretary bird, which is about the highest you can rate in the eyes of all those who decide if a girl can be classed as a bird at all. You gotta be really dishy or you don't get classed nohow. You just remain a girl.

It can't half be mortifying.

But not for Jennie. She's a top-rated Secretary bird, and any man-about-town would consider it a privilege to have her put an arrow through his hat.