Penny Baxter

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Penny Wise

When you're young, life is a whizz, but PENNY BAXTER had a wise eye on her future when she recently went to study for a year in Florence. Penny's an artist.

Beautiful Britons No 120 - November 1965

Joan Russell

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Lucky Old Dino

Don't know what it is. Something from the astral world, we shouldn't wonder. Found its feet though. Got 'em nicely under the table at the home of JOAN RUSSELL of Ayrshire. Lucky old Dino. Name's all right but face is a bit funny.

Joan thinks it's cute.

Looks like a freak doing a freak-out to us. There's Joan with her lovely legs that have won prizes for their shape, and there's Dino, and if Dino doesn't look the oddest shape beside Joan, we're not seeing as well as we used to.

Joan is our idea of what's magnetic about Scotland. Dino is our idea of what's lucky about an oddity that's got its feet nicely under Joan's kitchen table.

Beautiful Britons No 168 - Nov 1969

Ingrid Norsman

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Calling All Collies

If you're a nice big cuddly collie doggie, looking for a nice cosy cuddly home, why not get in touch with cosy cuddly INGRID NORSMAN?

If you're lost around the Cotswolds, Ingrid might be pleased to hear from you. Ingrid is an absolutely bewitching dog-lover. Honestly, some of you galumping great St. Bernards get better treatment from Ingrid than a mislaid pop star in need of his mother.

“What would you rather have for Easter, Ingrid? A famous pop star or a woolly collie?”

“Don't make me laugh, what would do with a pop star? You can take a woolly collie for a lovely ramble. You can't take a pop star anywhere except where the windows are all shut to keep the noise in.”

This is Ingrid.

Cuddly collies, please note.

Span No 212 - April 1972

Heather Chaffey - Update

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Heather Chaffey

Occasionally I get updates from family members on models featured on this site; I recently had an update from Cherie Chaffey, Heather’s daughter.

Heather sadly passed away after a short illness, on the 8th December 2018 with her husband, her photographer, passing away just 3 weeks later.

Cherie is very proud of her mum and delighted that her memory goes on. We certainly agree with that.

Below is a small gallery of some of my favourite pictures and some very apt mumbo jumbo from ToCo for once.

Glamorous Aussie

All I can say, said Bertie Shoemaker as soon as he clapped eyes on the pictures of HEATHER CHAFFEY of Australia, is that if I've got to go twelve thousand miles to see her in person, I'll go even if I have to walk it.

Can't blame the feller. Heather of New South Wales is a living doll, and if there are others like her Down Under we'll go with Bertie and see if we can't actually get there before he does.

Heather is a happy housewife with a lovely home and a sunny garden, and just about our idea of the best reason why we suddenly want to emigrate. We don't want to work in the outback or dig for nickel, however, we just want to take the house next door to Heather's and talk to her over the garden fence and join her for coffee.

Heather must have been a real beaut as a baby, because just look at her now, cobber.

Oh, trying to be all matey and Australian, are we?

You bet we are.

Vanda Vane-Dotson

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Make Yourself Comfortable

There's a marvellous country girl we know. She rides to the hounds and all that jazz, and she looks absolutely gorgeous on a gee-gee, and if we could get her going for a gallop in her new tangerine mini-skirt she'd look even more gorgeous.

Her name is VANDA VANE-DOTSON, and she may be hyphenated but she's lovely to know. Hyphenated isn't catching anyway. She's a bit keen on law books and as they need going into at length, we told her to make herself comfortable while she was studying the odd twenty volumes or so. She made herself lovely and comfortable.

We told her to put her feet up as well, and as you can see if you turn the page she did. Look out for her around the countryside in Kent. She's got a darling horse called Mick. Oh, and she likes old English inns.

Have a pint on the horse. Mick’s a generous old gee-gee.

Beautiful Britons No 168 - November 1969

Helen Milligan

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Helen Brodie (Milligan)

One for all you D.K. fans of the lovely HELEN BRODIE.

Span No 200 - April 1971

Monika Busch - Almut Eggert - Jeannette Charrown

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Trio

First of our trio, in fact, is blonde MONIKA BUSCH, a nineteen-year-old mannequin of Berlin. Monika was crowned Miss Berlin only this year, and although we aren't acquainted with too many Berlin beauties, we can't think the Berliners went wrong on this choice.

Next comes attractive ALMUT EGGERT, just twenty-one. Almut is a film actress from West Germany and just about the prettiest prospect they have lined up there for the cinemagoers.

Completing our Teutonic trio is JEANNETTE CHARROWN, at twenty just beginning to make a name for herself in Continental films. Needless to say, we can't wait to see Jeannette on our own screens, and any delay will add to our incentive to gnaw our fingers.

Span No 84 - August 1961

Patricia Garland (Susan Douglas)

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Elegance and Efficiency

Elegance and Efficiency

Combining these virtues is lovely PATRICIA GARLAND, secretary in the City of London.

Pat has just become interested in modelling and wants eventually to do TV commercials. We can think of no one more elegantly equipped for the job of convincing us we're not using the right shampoo to stop our hair falling out. Or enticing us to wash in a new kind of detergent.

Frankly, we aren't too bothered about never being alone with a certain brand, but what chance is there of being alone with Pat to persuade her we know just which box of chocolates she likes best? Isn't she a honey?

Watch out for TV advertisers being crafty enough to size up Pat as a hundred per cent prospect for selling you on every line that passes over your screens. How could you resist her without keeping your eyes shut-and with Pat in view how could you keep your eyes shut?

Beautiful Britons No 72 - October 1961

Liz McEwen and Debora Stewart

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Friends

Great friends are blonde LIZ McEWEN and brunette DEBORA STEWART" so when it came to fixing up a game of badminton in the garden it was only natural for them to go through with it in the friendliest way possible.

It's all a laugh to Liz and Debbie. It might have been a matter of grim, purposeful intent to two other girls whose only thought would have been to get on with the game and slaughter each other.

But Liz and Debbie play the game for the giggles and don't even bother to keep the score. Why don't they bother to keep the score?

“We can’t count," said Debbie.

Beautiful Britons No 143 - October 1967

Mrs Smith

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Mrs Smith

Linda Groom

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Oh, My Hat!

When a straw hat is not a hat is when it's a cute chapeau perched on the curly head of a beautiful LINDA GROOM, thus making this Bournemouth belle not just a mere lovely lady but an absolute eye-catcher.

Come now, where else have you seen a straw hat worn with such eye-appeal and, where else have you seen a tree put in the shade by such long-legged loveliness?

As for the pyjama jacket, this looks even better on Linda than any man, and if you know any outdoor vista which has more appeal than this one, you must have a beautiful view from where you live.

Linda, a receptionist, is one of the nicest girls we know, and if there's one thing that would make us celebrate and take two extra noggins for supper, it would be a transfer to Bournemouth!

Spick No 120 - November 1963