Two more odd and unpublished pictures of Joan Glover. All are very ToCo bizarre again, with Joan dressed in shorts, a bikini top, and, of course, white heels, while balancing on a fallen tree somewhere in the countryside with a beach ball. All it really needs now is a herd of cows in the background. Many thanks again to tocofan for this contribution.
When our country cousin Ella came to stay for a week, everything turned into something like the last days of Pompeii. Ella was a great big girl whose main activity on the farm was showing fractious bulls who was the boss. She could eat some of them for lunch. Every window in our house was flung open night and day, and she made the beds like haystacks. She threw out everything she said wasn't healthy, like canned milk and Sunday supplements, and exchanged all our contemporary furniture for chairs and tables made out of obsolete milk churns.
But not everybody's country cousin is like that. PAMELA GASTALL is someone's lovely country cousin from Sussex, and if there's one thing we're certain of she makes her farm milk churns look anything but obsolete. She's a gorgeously sweet seventeen, she's kind to all the bulls and cows, and gallops deliriously o'er the downs on her horse.
How would you like a country cousin like Pam? Don't apply to us, write to Father Christmas-but only if you've been good.
In addition to everything we've already said, Pam's opinion is that the rat race in rural areas is mainly confined to bunnies. You may consider that ridiculous, but if you were a doe and were being chased up hill and down dale by every buck for miles around, what would you think of civilisation?
The question is rather rhetorical. It's merely posed to make you think.
Span No 186 - February 1970
Just bizarre, don't you think? It’s a grey day, and we’re on rough, sloping ground, dressed in a tennis skirt, stockings, suspenders, and white heels. Anyone for a game of tennis? Count me in for sure. ToCo at its best.
Another great contribution from tocofans collection of contacts and negatives. Not sure if this one was ever published or not.
We have not seen much of our favourite nurse, Paula, recently. Here are another three pictures of her enjoying a day out in the woods. Paula, it seems, isn’t much of a smiler, and of all the pictures I have of her—and I have quite a few—I can only find one where she has what I would call a half smile. I will try to get it posted in a few weeks time. Enjoy these three for now.
Julie Marsden is one of those tantalising models who are drop-dead gorgeous but made few appearances in Toco’s magazine. She had everything – a pretty face, lustrous hair, legs that go all the way up to the ladies’ lingerie department and that cheeky zing in her poses and body language that says, “so I’m sitting in the boot of a car and flashing my stocking tops and suspenders at you. Do you have a problem with this? ‘Cos I don’t”. So why only four appearances and a few orphaned photos hanging about? And why did she make three appearances in her first year (from her debut in BB112 in March 1965, Spick 139 in June of that same year and BB12 later in November) and then nothing for an entire decade until Span 250 in June 1975? I expect pictures that ToCo had in their files that were taken in the 60s.
Well, many a Scots girl has graced our pages and brought many a smile and many a sigh to appreciative males everywhere, including (just for the record) Albania.
Pride of all the Scots is CHERIE SCOTT, music graduate, and a girl who at the tender age of 22 can fence, skate, swim and throw you from here to eternity at judo.
So wouldn't you be proud of her if she belonged to you? All right, Luke, don't go all coy. You can always go to music classes and look for one just like Cherie.
Luke could be unlucky. There probably aren't any others just like Cherie.
They don't grow like chestnuts, you know. Just one every so often. Auburn, vivacious, cheeky, and with those classically symmetrical statistics of 36-24-36.
Beautiful Britons No 184 - March 1971
Yes, they miss SONJE ARVOLD back in Norway.
For nineteen years she lived an entirely quiet life in the north of that country, and then decided it was just too quiet.
So, she came to London eight months ago to work as an au pair girl, and the agency found her a cosy niche with a family in Golders Green. Sonje couldn't get over the exciting enjoyment of the Soho clubs at first, but she settled down in the end and adjusted her outlook so that she wouldn't feel so giddy.
Saturdays are her days off. That's when you'll see this lovely Norwegian miss all caught up in the London scene.
Spick No 212 - July 1971
Now happily married is Scots model JANET NEILL.
Well, life is always what you make it, when you're married there are two of you to make it well worthwhile. It's fun finding out that life is fun. It's hard work being miserable. With Janet it's natural to be gay. Husbands, like life, can be fun too.
Spick Extra No 14 - Summer 1961
Dreamy-eyed girl with the long legs is JULIE AMOS, new to the world of modelling.
Julie is a Yorkshire girl, resident at the moment in London.
Working in a London office, Julie earns sufficient as a shorthand-typist to keep herself comfortably fed and attractively clothed, and that's not all.
She also puts away enough each the pay-day to ensure she can cope with the expenses of a summer holiday on the Continent. On any part of the Continent incidentally, this soft eyed, dark haired Yorkshire lass really slays them.
Spick Extra No 14 - Summer 1961
Actually, HELEN CANDLISH looks lovely in any kind of clothing. She's pretty cute even in a barrel or a roll of lino. In lingerie, of course, she's one hundred per cent feminine, and that, bub, counts more with us than any barrel.
If you're travelling through Ayrshire at all this summer, on your way to the Highlands, you might be lucky enough to spot Helen. Keep your glasses at the ready and let someone else do the driving.
Helen loves modelling, and there's nothing that quite beats a model who loves her work and who looks just the way Helen looks.
And when modelling the attractive briefness of the modern girl's lingerie, Helen looks lovely. Which is where we came in.
Spick Extra No 14 - Summer 1961
Another great picture from Tocofan, I think taken from a contact sheet. Maggie McCully is standing on what must be, by now, that infamous back office ToCo table that has been seen so many times in their magazines. Maggie has a slightly odd expression, which is possibly why it was never selected to be published. However, she certainly has a fantastic pair of legs hidden under that very typical style of dress that she seemed to favour so much.
Playing 'first-pass-the post-bags-a-lollipop' are vivacious brunette MARY GRAHAM and eye-catching blonde JANETTE GOODMAN. Anyway, it's a good substitute for press-ups and not so killing, even if it is hard on the knees of the gee-gee. And some gee-gee.
How'd you turn round in a corner? Janette's the worried one at this stage, but it's Mary who ought to have been.
Well, it was Mary, you see, who had farther to fall. This represents the final sequence of 'hands-knees-and-boompsa-daisy'. but no two girls could go 'boomps' with more photogenic emphasis than Janette and Mary, unless they weighed twice as much. In which case the emphasis would be physical-ouch!
Span No 103 - March 1963
Great picture of Jane Paul looking like she has spotted something in the distance that might interrupt the photo session. I'm not sure if this picture was ever published in a magazine, but please let us all know if you have any information contradicting that. Many thanks to Tocofan for contributing this picture.
Long Legged blonde, MARGO HAMILTON, is definitely of the opinion that nothing suits a fair-headed girl better than an ensemble in black, and from the way she looks in this outfit we're not disputing that opinion. If you can think of anything, better drop us a card.
You can't be seen at Ascot without an eye-catching hat, and what's more eye-catching than Margo's lampshade chapeau?
Margo is a dancer among other things, and you can bet that when those long legs of hers are encased in fishnet tights your girlfriend won't be too happy about the attention, you're giving this particular dancer. But, after all, you didn't go to the night spot to turn your back on the cabaret, did you?
Spick No 88 - March 1961
May we introduce someone we think you'll find different from all those insurance agents who keep knocking at your door?
By all means. I've been having the grottiest time lately; everything has been a dead drag. To make it grottier I got jammed in a tube train yesterday and nearly left my right leg in the tunnel between Charing Cross and St. James' Park. So, as you can imagine, I'm all set for something beautiful to happen to me.
In that case, meet MICKEY JINES, the most fascinating shape of them all in a gingham dress. Hold on there's no need to roll about, all you need do is click your heels and raise your hat.
I can't help it if she floors me. What can I do to make her life beautiful and ecstatic?
Escort her round London. She wants to see the Houses of Parliament Piccadilly Circus and the Tower.
I'll take her by tube. With any luck we'll get jammed in together.
Spick No 174 - May 1968
