Mystery Model - Private Collection

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The Girl Who Stole My Painting

Amongst this collection of negatives this sleeve had written across the top nothing more than "The Girl Who Stole My Painting," naturally, I had to have a look at her. Great boots.

Tanith Hope

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Plant Life Addict

Wiltshire girl TANITH HOPE is mad about the cultivation of exotic plants, which proves it's not every dishy young lovely who likes to live next door to a discotheque.

Her unusual name is all her very own, so is her talent for interior decorating. She's got the most vivacious personality and a fresh air complexion acquired through her outdoor activity of hiking and rambling.

If you'd like to ramble with her don't write to us, write to Santa Claus.

Beautiful Britons No 181 - December 1970

Nicola Taylor

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How Delightful

We can find no other way of expressing our feelings in respect of NICOLA TAYLOR of Hampshire, who is indeed extremely delightful, no matter whether she's modelling the newest style of mini-skirt or the ultimate in modern lingerie.

Spick No 167 - October 1967

Brighton Girl - Private Collection

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Brighton Girl

More from the Private Collection of negatives. I have nothing more than "Brighton Girl" written across the top of the negative sleeves. She has a super smile though.

Toni Townsend

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The True Quality Of Rural Charm

Yes, very well, sit up and pay attention.

The true quality of rural charm lies in the absence of man-made pot-pourri like office blocks and bags of cement. Horses are all right, they fit in fine. So does grass. It's also pretty authentic if there are trees around and a bit of honeysuckle in the hedge adds a quality very true indeed.

A man in a car is out. So is a petrol lorry.

But TONI TOWNSEND is in. This lovely Hampshire housewife is corkingly rural because her charm is natural and unspoiled. Before she became a housewife Toni worked as an advertising assistant, and there was glass and concrete all round her.

Now she lives in the country and goes with the trees, the hedges, and the honeysuckle. Sort of lovely, like.

Beautiful Britons No 169 - December 1969

Angela Shaw

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Long Girl Short Mini

Well yes, that's the way it goes these days. The girls with the longest legs seem to wear the shortest minis. Mrs. Ethel Bubblestoke is well aware of this and every time secretary ANGELA SHAW trips long-leggedly down the road, Mrs. Bubblestoke drags Mr. Bubblestoke indoors.

Mr. Bubblestoke is a retired gas-meter checker and spends most of his time in the garden so that he doesn't aggravate the missus. Whenever he's in the house it's "Lift your feet, Harvey," or "Mind your boots, you lummox," or "Now look what you've done, clumsy." So, they both like it when she's in the house and he's in the garden, with a nice compromise at meal times.

But seeing how easy on the eye Angela is, and knowing retired men can't keep their minds on hoeing any easier than younger men, poor old Harvey gets dragged indoors and put into the cupboard under the stairs whenever Angela hoves into view. While there he checks the gas meter. It's an automatic reflex action, of course. When the missus lets him out Harvey says, "We've clocked up another therm since yesterday, dear." "Yes, never mind that," says Ethel, "out you go and just mind where you're looking.

Beautiful Britons No 156 - November 1968

Mystery Model - Private Collection

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What do you think you would like for dinner?

A Mystery Model is captured in a relaxed pose, browsing through a cookery book while providing us with a nice glimpse of her stocking tops. These images are from the Private Collection of negatives.

Mickey Jines

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Meet Mickey

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

Michelle – Private Collection

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Michelle

Another model from the Private Collection is Michelle. I have no further details. One thing that I can observe, which may not be evident in these two pictures, is that sometimes she wears a wedding ring. She is indeed a pretty girl. More will be revealed in the coming months.

Martina Evans

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Come Out Whoever You Are

Ah-hah, and whose dark, magnetic eyes are those peeping from behind the fringed equivalent of a Persian yashmak?

To whom do those long, elegant legs belong to?

It can't be Nancy Sirloin, she's gone off to join a sailor in Western Australia in a trouser suit. It can't be Lilian Bullivant either, she lives in a converted barge at Greenwich and doesn't hide behind anything except a sou-wester and a Grecian tarpaulin.

If you're getting repressed and frustrated, bear up, you're suffering from nothing a bottle of hypochondriac solution can't cure. We'll throw in our own assistance by disclosing those dark, magnetic eyes and those long, elegant legs belong to MARTINA EVANS, who has the delightful job of serving behind the frill-bedecked counter of a ladies' lingerie shop.

Take your girlfriend there and buy her something delicately ravishing for Easter. Martina will be a great help, even though her ambition has little to do with selling lingerie.

She wants to be an air hostess.

Come fly with me and never mind about fastening the safety-belts.

Beautiful Britons No 135 - February 1967

Jacki Owen

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Swinger

All set to swing it in the park is JACKI OWEN, fashion model from the Midlands. Activated by gay go-go, Jacki is representative of the swinging girls of today. We asked her what she thought of the maxi fashions, and she said, "But I’ll be all covered up, I'll feel like a brown paper parcel. I'm not ready for the maxi, I'm too young ask me again in twenty-five years."

Span No 163 - March 1968