Sara Stuart

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Is That Better

Is what better?
The telly, silly. Is the picture better?
The young man said that as far as he was concerned the television was entirely non-existent, since he had never believed that any inanimate man-made object, no matter how many dials and wires it had, could be regarded as real when compared with that which was a gift of nature.
SARA STUART, Ayrshire girl, thought he was trying to give a lecture on social welfare. Beautiful but by no means vain, Sara had no idea just how much better she looked than the television set.
The young man, quite earnestly absorbed in his subject, went on about tramcars and monuments, lucidly dissecting the argument that these things can be looked at with sympathy and admiration, and emphasising his own argument about things that really mattered.
At the end of it all Sara, a secretary with a liking for classical music, said she supposed that what he meant was that he wasn't bothered about the television programme.
"Oh good," said the young man, "you've caught on. How about coming out to dinner with me?'
"I was beginning to think,' said Sara,' that you'd never ask.'

Beautiful Britons No 181 - 1970

Private Collection - Mystery Model

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Smoking Girl

I only have these four pictures of this girl with no name from the private collection of negatives. I am going to call her the "smoking girl." I like her; she has a pretty face and a lovely smile, and as so many of them do, she gives us that knowing look that says, "Look what I might have on offer." Enjoy the pictures from a time that was suggestive, teasing, and just fun.

Samantha Brown

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What Could Be More Appropriate?

Life is full of intriguing little surprises.

When we found SAMANTHA BROWN she herself was a delicious surprise, because we were actually looking for a surplus beer barrel in a coopers' yard. We wanted to go over Niagara Falls in it and get our name in the North American papers. Anyway, we couldn't find one comfortable enough, so we gave up and bumped into this delicious surprise, who turned out to be a lovely Hampshire girl.

Samantha provided the intriguing little surprise because we found out that as a pin-up girl, with a particular flair for modelling lingerie, she is also a part-time underwear representative. Yes indeed, what could be more appropriate than that?

Samantha is twenty-five, and a happy housewife with what her husband calls a divine talent for gardening.

Beautiful Britons No 184 - March 1971

Pamela Gastall

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Country Cousin

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

Alice Richmond

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Rear View

I really like this picture of Alice Richmond. If you can remember, we had a front view at the beginning of April, which certainly looks to be from the same photoshoot session. It’s not that typical of ToCo; it feels edgy, maybe because the pictures are very dark. I love the way her see-through knickers are slipping down, and that we actually can't see her hands, giving the impression that she could be tied up. That certainly would be a new one for ToCo.

Enjoy it and thank tocofan for another great picture from his collection.

Vintage Stockings Archive

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Mystery Model

I have a number of interesting sets of digital images that came with the transfer of the Vintage Stockings Archive drives. This is one of them. I have spent a little time cleaning them up a bit but have no idea of their origins, but she does look oddly familiar, any extra information is always welcome and helpful. Most of all enjoy them.

Fiona Stuart

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Fiona

Extremely pretty is FIONA STUART, who comes from Ayrshire and got her creamy complexion from all that Highland air. Fiona has been so popular with readers that we picture her again for all her fans, and if you know any girl who makes a prettier pin-up pic than she does, then you're so lucky you ought to make a large donation to a deserving charity.
Spick No 262 - September 1975

Joan Glover

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Anyone For Tennis

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.

Maureen - Private Collection

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Maureen

Who’s been missing the lovely Maureen? Two superb shots of Maureen sitting on a coffee table, giving us a naughty eyeful. It’s just a pity the photographer was so focused on her legs that he left out her feet.

Clare London

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Jazzy

There's still a future for stockings. Stretch tights haven't yet completely ousted them, as CLARE LONDON shows. The manufacturers are jazzing them up something smashing, says Clare.

Clare is from Middlesex, is married and is also wedded to her mini-skirts. Who wants jazzed-up stockings hidden by a maxi?

Beautiful Britons No 184 - March 1971

Michelle - Private Collection

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Fun and Games With Michelle

Two more pictures featuring the very popular Michelle. I noted just over a week ago that all the pictures I have of Paula, our nurse, show her not smiling at the camera. Well, I can't say the same for Michelle; it's the complete opposite. In fact, all the pictures I have of Michelle show her smiling, laughing, or just generally messing around in front of the camera, with these two being great examples of that. She certainly seems to be having fun reclining on the daybed with a cigarette and a glass of something. Sexy and fun—what more could anyone ask for?

Ruth Cavendish

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Come And See Us - Anytime

Yes, anytime our popular RUTH CAVENDISH can make it down South from her Glasgow home, we'd be absolutely tickled.
Naturally, we'd return the compliment.
"No, don't," said Ruth, "I go mad when I'm tickled and then all terribly weak."
"Honestly?"
"Well, when I was a lovely schoolgirl," said Ruth, "that Bryan McGregor and that lan McCuddle - honestly."
"Honestly? What happened?"
"I had to bash them unconscious with my school satchel," said Ruth.
"Well, you can still come up and see us anytime, but leave your satchel behind."

Span No 243 - November 1974

Wanda Liddell

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Gone Blonde

Take a note, chaps. Your latest favourite glamour bird WANDA LIDDELL has gone blonde. We thought we'd tell you in case you missed her when she was passing by in Bond Street.
Wanda, from Canada, wears her blonde look on alternate days, and this so confuses the stage manager of the theatre where she works that he thinks he's going colour-blind.
Of course, if he kept his eye on her shape instead of her hair, he'd know who she was to the last inch.
Wanda measures 38-24-36, and you can't get confused about that. You can get excited, naturally-who wouldn't?
But don't get confused or you'll never get a grip on your ambitions.

Spick No 262 - September 1975

Paula - Private Collection

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A Day Out In The Woods With Paula

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.