New Year – New Ideas

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Site News

It’s been a busy year, 2021. Vintage Fetish has been doing well, with its audience growing month on month. Personally, I have had a few ups and downs, but a way forward is making itself clear and I have a few ideas I would like to share.

Vintage Stockings Archive

Last summer I was fortunate to be offered the complete contents of the Vintage Stockings Archive from its webmaster. The site, which I am sure a great many of you were familiar with, closed a year or two ago. There are, as you can imagine, 10’s of 1000’s of images; I have taken some months to review these and have been posting some of the ones that are most in keeping with this website’s main content into the blog on a regular basis.

Most, though, don’t fit well on this site. I want to keep this website as I originally intended - to cover all things ToCo, and include other titles from the 1950’s, 60’s and early 1970’s era. And there is still a lot of ground to cover here, with QT and Pin-Up and many other lesser-known titles still to come; as ever the intention is to make as many of these books available as digital copies for us all to enjoy for a long time to come.

So, let me stop waffling and get to the point – I have decided to resurrect Vintage Stockings Archive as a new stand-alone website. Most, if not all, of its old content, and some new, will be made available for you to enjoy. Those of you who are familiar with the old site will appreciate that a great deal of its content was pictures that had been harvested from the web and then reposted in their original form. I am not going to change that; images will be posted in galleries un-retouched - I just don’t have the time to review every picture.

This new site will eventually have to stand on its own feet financially, which means it will likely be funded with adverts. I will give it a year to see how things go.

Construction is underway, and it will go live when I have enough galleries uploaded to make it viable, and then keep adding content on a regular basis.

I will let you know here when it goes live.

New Models - Wives and Girlfriends

I have been thinking about this next project for some time and feel that the site has now matured enough to give it a go.

But this one is down to you.

Spick, Span and Beautiful Britons were a real success; they published their funny little books for 23 years, and it was all down to pictures of mainly ordinary women in ordinary situations giving us an eyeful of their underwear and a teasing look; what more could we ever want!

The success of this website shows me there is still a real desire to see more like it.

I am keen, and I am sure many others are as well, to see something a little more up to date.

So, I am proposing an area where you can send in pictures of your wives and girlfriends. I do want to ensure that this is in keeping with the ToCo view on things - teasing and fun - nothing explicit. Take a close look at the pictures used from the 1960’s books to get a good idea of what is required. This one really is down to you - your reward will be the fun you get at the end of the shoot, and then seeing your pictures being liked and commented on by others.

More information can be found here.

Anne Duke

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Seen My Head?

It's serious, said the man invisible from the neck upwards, I've just lost my head. It happened in a trice. I saw ANNE DUKE and lost it as soon as my eyes fastened on her.

Never mind, with a head like you had you're better off without it.

Don't be unkind to him, said Anne, after all, it's rather flattering, a girl likes to feel she's noticed as much as that.

Beautiful Britons No 155 - October 1968

Hazel Poole

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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

Fiona McKay

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The Mini-Kilt

As you all know, the minikilt is a Scottish-styled miniskirt with a tartan pattern and a whacking great safety pin. What you don't know is how delicious Scottish secretary FIONA McKAY looks in her little kilt, so here you are, you can now find out. Fiona is intrinsically bonny, which means she doesn't half make a dishy open-air picture, and with vitalistics of 37-23-36 she couldn't miss. Any enquiries about the lovely effect of porridge on the figure should be addressed to the Scottish Department of Physical Culture.

Spick No 189 - August 1969

Joanna Young

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Also A Lovely Cook

Not only is JOANNA YOUNG an attractive housewife and a mother of four little girls, she's also an enthusiastic water-skier.

And that's not all.

She's also a lovely cook.

How do you do it, Joanna?

"Well, you take a bag of flour, a dozen eggs-" No, don't be comical. How do you find the time and the enthusiasm?

"Well, my husband has this big whip, you see-"

No, be serious.

"It just comes naturally. was born a genius." You were born beautiful, that's what. Good on you, darling.

"Don't be so familiar."

Can't help it. You're lovely.

In fact, Joanna isn't just lovely, she looks like the spirit of animated feminity when she's out on her favorite country ramble.

Span No 198 - February 1971

Annette French

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Waiting For Spring

Spring seemed to be late this year to ANNETTE FRENCH.

She wanted to wear something light and flimsy, something she'd bought from her local boutique in Glasgow, something all primrose yellow.

But it was chilly enough to nip even the most insensitive ear, so Annette wore a warm coat and everything. However, it was supposed to be spring, so she gambolled about. She had to, to keep warm.

She may not have been in something light and flimsy, and primrose yellow, but she still looked ever so dishy.

Wait till the summer comes.

Then she'll put on something divinely brief.

Don't get toothache waiting, fellers. Just compose yourselves and dig up the garden.

Spick No 211 - June 1971

Who Was The Elusive J B Fullarton?

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An Update from Saltcoats - Part 2

This all starts with a picture of Janet Neill, used or taken for Pin-Up No 4 (July/August 1956). Many of the models who appeared in Pin-Up were also familiar faces in ToCo publications, and Janet Neill was no exception to this. The pictures used in Pin-Up frequently had the photographer details credited alongside the model’s name. In Pin-Up No 4, Janet is seen on pages 7, 8, and 9 and the photographer is credited as Jack W Boyd.

A search on Jack W Boyd found that in the late 1950s he owned the photographer’s shop in Saltcoats. Dockhead Street, Saltcoats, showing Jack W Boyd's photographer's shop at number 41. Mr Boyd was the tenant of the property from around 1957.

Further investigations led to the Threetowners website and their forum. A quick search on Janet Neill and Sadie Milligan quickly produced some interesting results; both had emigrated to Australia, with Sadie (Sarah) Milligan now living in Melbourne and being an active forum member.

Sadie (Sarah) Milligan - Far Right

Sarah Milligan, far right, taken in 1974. By my calculations that would make her 35 years old in this picture. ToCo were still publishing pictures of her from old sets in 1971.

Another picture shows the Stevenston Motor Cycle Club outing, circa 1956. Crouched down in the front row next to each other are Janet Neill and Sadie Milligan, so they obviously knew each other then. Sarah (Sadie) identified the people in the photo.

Another search of the forum for Fullarton found this request for family history information from a John Fullarton. Threetowners Forum

There are two key paragraphs – Posted below.

I have been working on my family tree for some four years and while I have many of the main branches back to 1690`s, I have data back to 1550 which I am trying to confirm, before entering into my family tree. I have over 1000 relatives on my database. So perhaps I can be of help to someone out there and you can help me either confirm or add to my family tree. I also have a large collection of school and local photographs from 1880 to 1960. In the 1950`s. I was a freelance photographer (as a hobby) and had pictures printed in both National and the Local paper, including the ICI paper and magazine.

My name is John Fullarton ( known in Scotland as Ian Fullarton). My family comprise of names such as, Sutherland, Boyd, Breckenridge, Dunlop, McCleland, McGrath, Orr, plus many more On my mothers side there are Brown, McMurray, Black, Ballantyne, McCulley, etc, all from Ardrossan, Saltcoats and Stevenston. I was born in Killwinning and lived in Stevenston until 1960. I attended Stevenston Higher Grade School till early 1950`s (I have a photograph of the Class of 1952), I then went to Ardrossan Academy until 1954. I served an Engineering Apprenticeship at ICI, Nobel Division, Ardeer from 1954 to 1959 finishing in the Power Station. I was in the Scouts (11th Ayrshire) at Stevenston, finishing up as Scoutmaster for a number of years, in the late 1950`s.

So, we have a freelance photographer named John Fullarton who worked at the power station at the explosive factory. As one of the surnames he was interested in was Boyd, he is almost certainly related to Jack W Boyd.

Armed with the vital information that he was born in Kilwinning, I did a search of Scotland’s People for the index entry for a John Fullarton born in Kilwinning in the 1930s. There was only one!

FULLARTON JOHN BOYD ORR M 1937 599/ 537 Kilwinning

So, if he only used the first two initials, he becomes J B Fullarton. Not using all your initials is not uncommon - if you have more than two you would possibly only use the first two.

A final surprise - a search on John Boyd Orr Fullarton found this obituary from 2019 in the Isle of Thanet News.

So, this possibly could be the elusive J B Fullarton. I'm curious as to when he stopped being a glamour photographer; was it when he got married in 1964 or did being a civil servant make continuing as a glamour photographer difficult. What we do know is that his involvement with ToCo came to an end around this time and it has been suggested that he may have died or just moved on to another chapter of his life.

We might never know the truth, but this is definitely a real possibility, and it certainly is great to hear a little more about Sadie Milligan and Janet Neill.

Many thanks to Robert for researching all this and making it available to me.

Gloria Worth

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Lilting Look

Quite different from the look which will keep you in the acceptable trouser suit category, is the very acceptable lilting look of the Welsh charmer we found in Flintshire.

Her name is GLORIA WORTH.

All the Welsh girls have a lilting effect. It's the way they speak. Fascinating.

Gloria has been trained in ballet and modelling and how to captivate taxi-drivers without really trying. You know how taxis can pass you by when it's raining. They all stop for Gloria in sunshine or rain.

"Where to, gorgeous?"

"Station, please."

"That'll cost you three bob."

"Will you take stamps?"

"Oh, I've got a right one here. Only stop looking at me or I'll take jam jars as well."

Beautiful Britons - No 137 April 1967