Jill Lucienne (Burrows)

Jill was a sparkling-eyed brunette, who was born in Ilford Essex as Jill Lucienne Burrows. She married Lloyd Cornish in St Helier, Jersey in October 1959, just one year after her debut appearance in Beautiful Britons No 36.

The occupation on her marriage certificate stated that she was a model who was living in St. Helier at the time.

ToCo though stated that she was biochemical lab assistant who aspired to be a film or TV star; perhaps she was a lab assistant before getting married and moving to Jersey?

However, she must have made quite an impression on Marjorie Smith, editor of Funfare who, in Funfare 13, writes, “only a month after we met her, we’d introduced her to a well-known film director. We thought she’d got that ‘look’. She had, apparently, for she was given parts in two films immediately,”

She appeared in those films under the name of Jill Burrows.

The Pleasure Lovers (1959) - This film also featured several other ToCo models.

Eve Eden (Rosa Domaille), Sheree Winton, Vickie Grey, June Cavell Mary Deighan, a Harrison Marks model

Life is a Circus (1960) - Once again this film also featured other ToCo models.

Marie Devereux, Andrea Loren

She also went on to star in three memorable editions of Funfare devoted entirely to her; two of them in military uniform − one dressed as an ATS army girl and the other as a Wren - with her invariably wearing beautiful seamed stockings.

At one stage, we are told by ToCo that Jill was considering either going to the South of France as a long stay nanny to brush up her French or emigrating to New Zealand with her sister. I am not quite sure what happened, but ToCo stated that she did emigrate to New Zealand, and that they managed to get her in the studio a week before her departure on a shoot for Funfare No 21 (September 1959). But this was just one month before her marriage, and it also does not make sense that she then went on to play a part in a film in 1960, so I am putting that down to ToCo mumbo-jumbo!

What is fact though, is that her sister Joan did emigrate to New Zealand in 1953 - some 5 to 6 years earlier. I have no evidence that Jill ever did the same, and believe that she is still alive and living in Jersey at the time of writing. Her husband Lloyd died in 2006.

Robin Brewster called her “one of the nicest girls we ever met”. She was certainly a fantastic ToCo model.

Personal Details  –  Born Nov 1936  –  34-22-35

Appearances  –  27 (4 covers, 6 back covers), debut Beautiful Britons 36 (October 58)

Spick  –  60, 61, 62, 63(bc), 65(bc), 66, X7

Span  –  55(bc), 56, X10

Beautiful Britons  –  36, 39, 42, 50, X9, X10

Spick & Span Holiday  –  3

Funfare  –  12(bc), 13, 15(bc), 16, 20(bc), 21

66  –  36, 37, 38, 41