Joan Young

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Old-Fashioned Dolly

Salesgirl JOAN YOUNG of Droitwich works in a gown shop and sells the most exclusive and expensive models to utterly rich customers. Joan is smart, elegant and deliciously tailored herself, but she's also old-fashioned. She simply won't be divorced from what she considers the irresistible look of stockings, even if she's thought positively dated.

She's not positively dated. She's delicious. And we agree. Stockings still have an irresistible look and an undying appeal. So there. Anyone for an anti-tights protest march? Starting from Glasgow and going all the way to Westminster? Well, get yourselves organised, then.

Beautiful Britons No 234 - May 1975

Funfare 2000

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Soap Stars

See more of Jo and her friends (All Colour) in the new range of eBooks from the Spick and Span 2000 series.

Dawn Warwick

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Dawn Warwick

Dawn Warwick is not a ToCo model name that most of us would be familiar with, and there's a good reason for that: Dawn only had one ToCo appearance, in Spick No. 162. In this appearance, Dawn is in an outdoor shot, half-hidden behind Liz McEwen.

This picture, kindly sent to me by Tocofan, is interesting because it could possibly have been taken somewhere other than the UK. That sideboard does not resemble the sort of furniture typically found in an average UK house in the 1960s, and the partially obscured view behind the net curtains certainly doesn't suggest a typical housing estate. Who knows—we'll probably never find out—but it doesn't really matter, as it's a nice picture and I'm pleased to share it here.

Lulu Betts

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What's French For Lulu?

"Pardon me, duck," said the London docker who was on a day trip to Boulogne, "'but what's French for Lulu?"

The exquisite young French thing hesitated on the pavement. She wasn't sure of the question, and she wasn't sure of herself. The London docker was brown, muscular and vibratory.

"Lulu?" she said.

"That's her," said he, "I met her at a charity ball in Shoreditch. Full name of LULU BETTS. Said she was French and came from Barcelona."'

"Ah, zat Barcelona, it in Spain," said the shy French piece.

"Well, I'm blowed, I've been blinded by science," said the docker.

The fact is, Lulu Betts is very much a pure Anglo-Saxon. She has a flat in London, and she didn't say she was French and came from Barcelona, she said she found it a wrench to leave Barcelona, where she'd been on holiday. The docker happened to be a bit hard of hearing that night, but he made out all right with the French doll, you'll be pleased to know.

Span No 236 - April 1974

Nicola Taylor

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Tight Squeeze For Nicola

These two pictures were featured in Span No. 243, during the twilight of ToCo’s run. They were probably taken much earlier, as they were certainly in the business of regurgitating pictures at this time that had not been used from earlier sets. 

There is no mumbo jumbo attached to them; they were just being used to advertise the sale of prints and to fill space. 

Nicola is clearly wearing tights with her knickers over the top, which was more common when tights were starting to become more popular.

Span No 243 - November 1974

Joan Glover

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Beach Party!

Two more odd and unpublished pictures of Joan Glover. All are very ToCo bizarre again, with Joan dressed in shorts, a bikini top, and, of course, white heels, while balancing on a fallen tree somewhere in the countryside with a beach ball. All it really needs now is a herd of cows in the background. Many thanks again to tocofan for this contribution.

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

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.

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.

Julie Marsden

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Julie Marsden - Model Home Page

Julie Marsden is one of those tantalising models who are drop-dead gorgeous but made few appearances in Toco’s magazine. She had everything – a pretty face, lustrous hair, legs that go all the way up to the ladies’ lingerie department and that cheeky zing in her poses and body language that says, “so I’m sitting in the boot of a car and flashing my stocking tops and suspenders at you. Do you have a problem with this? ‘Cos I don’t”. So why only four appearances and a few orphaned photos hanging about? And why did she make three appearances in her first year (from her debut in BB112 in March 1965, Spick 139 in June of that same year and BB12 later in November) and then nothing for an entire decade until Span 250 in June 1975? I expect pictures that ToCo had in their files that were taken in the 60s.

Cherie Scott

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Pride Of The Scotts

Well, many a Scots girl has graced our pages and brought many a smile and many a sigh to appreciative males everywhere, including (just for the record) Albania.

Pride of all the Scots is CHERIE SCOTT, music graduate, and a girl who at the tender age of 22 can fence, skate, swim and throw you from here to eternity at judo.

So wouldn't you be proud of her if she belonged to you? All right, Luke, don't go all coy. You can always go to music classes and look for one just like Cherie.

Luke could be unlucky. There probably aren't any others just like Cherie.

They don't grow like chestnuts, you know. Just one every so often. Auburn, vivacious, cheeky, and with those classically symmetrical statistics of 36-24-36.

Beautiful Britons No 184 - March 1971

Sonje Arvold

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Norwegian Miss

Yes, they miss SONJE ARVOLD back in Norway.

For nineteen years she lived an entirely quiet life in the north of that country, and then decided it was just too quiet.

So, she came to London eight months ago to work as an au pair girl, and the agency found her a cosy niche with a family in Golders Green. Sonje couldn't get over the exciting enjoyment of the Soho clubs at first, but she settled down in the end and adjusted her outlook so that she wouldn't feel so giddy.

Saturdays are her days off. That's when you'll see this lovely Norwegian miss all caught up in the London scene.

Spick No 212 - July 1971

Janet Neill

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Merry Mrs

Now happily married is Scots model JANET NEILL.

Well, life is always what you make it, when you're married there are two of you to make it well worthwhile. It's fun finding out that life is fun. It's hard work being miserable. With Janet it's natural to be gay. Husbands, like life, can be fun too.

Spick Extra No 14 - Summer 1961