Going Forward

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Blog Updates

For the past few years, I have been posting something every day. However, it has started to feel more like a chore rather than something I look forward to. In fact, there are now thousands of posts available in the archive for you to explore if you're interested.

Therefore, I have made the decision to start posting every other day. This will allow me to have time to pursue other avenues and make improvements here, which I will enjoy doing. It will also hopefully give me more time to showcase some original work, rather than just regurgitating old ToCo sets. However, I promise I won't abandon the ToCo stuff.

Still Disappointed…

It is also really starting to grate on me that a lot of my posts are being quickly reposted on Facebook and Tumblr within hours. What is particularly hurtful is that they are being passed off as their own work with no credit or acknowledgement to this site whatsoever. I understand that the internet can feel like the wild west, where some people think everything is free or up for grabs. However, that is not the case. I have mentioned before that some of the images on this site are copyrighted to me or that I pay others for the right to use them.

To those who are stealing my images, you know who you are, and you will read this message, I would like to ask you again to stop this behaviour. At the very minimum, please contact me first, ask for permission, and then give proper credit and link back to the site or original post. Even better, I encourage you to put effort into producing something original yourself.

Vintage Fetish

Dawn Grayson

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Album Time

Pause here for all the fans of DAWN GRAYSON who devote their photographic albums to pics of her.

Spick No 174 - May 1968

Yvette - Private Collection

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Yvette - Private Collection

Yvette is seen sitting on the grass, posing for the camera but she appears a little uneasy about it all. However, in the second picture, she gives us a glimpse of a smile. There aren't many pictures of Yvette, which is a shame because she is pretty girl with great hair colour.

Maggie Blye

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Maggie’s A Knockout

It doesn't need the heavyweight champion of the world to put you down for the count. A girl who's never been in the ring in her life can do it. A girl like MAGGIE BLYE, for instance, who doesn't even know about boxing gloves, can do it to us as well as you. Less than three years ago Maggie was a college co-ed. Now this sizzling honey blonde is playing in her third big motion picture, co-starring with Europe's own knockout, Marcello Mastroianni. According to the studio, the film "Diamonds For Breakfast' features Maggie as a cat burglar and Marcello as a sophisticated heart-throb, and when they meet it's a mutual knock-out.

You can visualise the sensational sizzle of Maggie the booted burglar, but if you can't it's probably because you've got tonsilitis. Have you seen your doctor?

Beautiful Britons No 156 - November 1968

Maureen - Private Collection

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Maureen - Private Collection

Maureen relaxing in a chair, giving us all a teasing glimpse of her stocking tops. With her knowing eyes, she seems to be saying, "Come and get it if you dare."

Pat Roberts - (Jane Fairbanks)

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Yorkshire Housewife

They don't come any better-looking than they do in Yorkshire, and that applies not just to batter puddings but to dolly girls, housewives and cricketers.

PAT ROBERTS is a Leeds housewife. She used to work as a secretary in a newspaper office, where some tall dark man fell for her and proposed to her. She married him and now she's a full-time housewife with two young sons.

Her interests and hobbies make lovely normal reading in this day and age. Her main interests are her husband and children, social parties, and cooking. Her hobbies are dressmaking, reading and antique shops.

How about that, dropouts?

You can be normal and happy. It's not all that difficult.

Pat's ambition is to win the pools, acquire a larger house and lots of antique chiming clocks. She likes the sound of the clocks all going off together.

Her most interesting vitalistics are 37-25-37. Gorgeous.

Beautiful Britons No 181 - December 1970

Michelle - Private Collection

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Michelle

Here are two more pictures from the Private Collection of Michelle, where she can be seen relaxing with a drink and a cigarette on what appears to be some sort of a day bed. Regardless of what she is lying on, she certainly looks ready for some fun.

Moira Graham

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Leaving Time

It happens to all of us eventually.

The day comes when the best years of our lives are over, and we leave the scholastic establishment we love so much.

It happened to MOIRA GRAHAM of Bradford in Yorkshire. One day she was still an eager student, the next day she was working in the offices of a building society as an accounts clerk.

Mind you, the other clerks - male - were pleased to have her. Blonde and green-eyed, Moira was the very nicest thing that had happened in the offices for years, and it probably won't be long before they start putting flowers on her desk and inviting her out to a rugby match on Saturdays. But keep her off the pitch, chaps, she's a stunner at Karate.

Span No 245 - January 1975

Stevie

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If Only We Knew

If only we knew where STEVIE, up-and-coming Yorkshire model, was going to spend her holiday this year it might solve the problem of where to go ourselves. We can't think of anyone we'd rather look at in a bikini than Stevie.

Span No 141 - May 1966

Helen Milligan

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Helen Milligan

Great picture of the very lovely Helen Milligan that was not published but taken from a set of pictures that were used twice. The original set was used in Beautiful Britons No. 118 (September 1965) entitled Field Day, with the remainder of the pictures being used in Spick No. 265 (December 1975) with that set entitled Oh You're Looking Good. This picture was not used in either set. The negative had a pen strike through it, which I have removed.

Very typical of Helen with the frilly petticoat that she was seen wearing in many pictures. Many thanks again to Tocofan for providing the negative.