Penny Baxter

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Penny Wise

When you're young, life is a whizz, but PENNY BAXTER had a wise eye on her future when she recently went to study for a year in Florence. Penny's an artist.

Beautiful Britons No 120 - November 1965

Joan Russell

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Lucky Old Dino

Don't know what it is. Something from the astral world, we shouldn't wonder. Found its feet though. Got 'em nicely under the table at the home of JOAN RUSSELL of Ayrshire. Lucky old Dino. Name's all right but face is a bit funny.

Joan thinks it's cute.

Looks like a freak doing a freak-out to us. There's Joan with her lovely legs that have won prizes for their shape, and there's Dino, and if Dino doesn't look the oddest shape beside Joan, we're not seeing as well as we used to.

Joan is our idea of what's magnetic about Scotland. Dino is our idea of what's lucky about an oddity that's got its feet nicely under Joan's kitchen table.

Beautiful Britons No 168 - Nov 1969

Mrs Smith

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Mrs Smith

Maria Assin

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Bunny Girl

You don't have to dress up in one of those bunny outfits with a pom-pom tail to be a bunny girl, you only need to be fond of rabbits.

You keep them in a nice dry hutch and feed them lettuce. MARIA ASSIN was out the other day looking for some cute baby bunnies to take home, and as we were out looking for conkers, we bumped heads with her round a tree.

"What I don't understand," said Maria as she posed for us, "is why you a need a camera when you're looking for conkers."

"Well, we snap them first to see if they're photogenic."

"I've never heard of photogenic conkers," said Maria.

"They're the ones that come out well in close-up."

"I hope you know what you're talking about,' said Maria.

Cute girl, Maria. She's a charge clerk, nineteen years old, with statistics of 36"-24"-36".

Beautiful Britons No 166 - September 1969

Ingrid Norsman

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Calling All Collies

If you're a nice big cuddly collie doggie, looking for a nice cosy cuddly home, why not get in touch with cosy cuddly INGRID NORSMAN?

If you're lost around the Cotswolds, Ingrid might be pleased to hear from you. Ingrid is an absolutely bewitching dog-lover. Honestly, some of you galumping great St. Bernards get better treatment from Ingrid than a mislaid pop star in need of his mother.

“What would you rather have for Easter, Ingrid? A famous pop star or a woolly collie?”

“Don't make me laugh, what would do with a pop star? You can take a woolly collie for a lovely ramble. You can't take a pop star anywhere except where the windows are all shut to keep the noise in.”

This is Ingrid.

Cuddly collies, please note.

Span No 212 - April 1972

Heather Chaffey - Update

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Heather Chaffey

Occasionally I get updates from family members on models featured on this site; I recently had an update from Cherie Chaffey, Heather’s daughter.

Heather sadly passed away after a short illness, on the 8th December 2018 with her husband, her photographer, passing away just 3 weeks later.

Cherie is very proud of her mum and delighted that her memory goes on. We certainly agree with that.

Below is a small gallery of some of my favourite pictures and some very apt mumbo jumbo from ToCo for once.

Glamorous Aussie

All I can say, said Bertie Shoemaker as soon as he clapped eyes on the pictures of HEATHER CHAFFEY of Australia, is that if I've got to go twelve thousand miles to see her in person, I'll go even if I have to walk it.

Can't blame the feller. Heather of New South Wales is a living doll, and if there are others like her Down Under we'll go with Bertie and see if we can't actually get there before he does.

Heather is a happy housewife with a lovely home and a sunny garden, and just about our idea of the best reason why we suddenly want to emigrate. We don't want to work in the outback or dig for nickel, however, we just want to take the house next door to Heather's and talk to her over the garden fence and join her for coffee.

Heather must have been a real beaut as a baby, because just look at her now, cobber.

Oh, trying to be all matey and Australian, are we?

You bet we are.

Vanda Vane-Dotson

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Make Yourself Comfortable

There's a marvellous country girl we know. She rides to the hounds and all that jazz, and she looks absolutely gorgeous on a gee-gee, and if we could get her going for a gallop in her new tangerine mini-skirt she'd look even more gorgeous.

Her name is VANDA VANE-DOTSON, and she may be hyphenated but she's lovely to know. Hyphenated isn't catching anyway. She's a bit keen on law books and as they need going into at length, we told her to make herself comfortable while she was studying the odd twenty volumes or so. She made herself lovely and comfortable.

We told her to put her feet up as well, and as you can see if you turn the page she did. Look out for her around the countryside in Kent. She's got a darling horse called Mick. Oh, and she likes old English inns.

Have a pint on the horse. Mick’s a generous old gee-gee.

Beautiful Britons No 168 - November 1969

Helen Milligan

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Helen Brodie (Milligan)

One for all you D.K. fans of the lovely HELEN BRODIE.

Span No 200 - April 1971

Monika Busch - Almut Eggert - Jeannette Charrown

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Trio

First of our trio, in fact, is blonde MONIKA BUSCH, a nineteen-year-old mannequin of Berlin. Monika was crowned Miss Berlin only this year, and although we aren't acquainted with too many Berlin beauties, we can't think the Berliners went wrong on this choice.

Next comes attractive ALMUT EGGERT, just twenty-one. Almut is a film actress from West Germany and just about the prettiest prospect they have lined up there for the cinemagoers.

Completing our Teutonic trio is JEANNETTE CHARROWN, at twenty just beginning to make a name for herself in Continental films. Needless to say, we can't wait to see Jeannette on our own screens, and any delay will add to our incentive to gnaw our fingers.

Span No 84 - August 1961

Karen Jenson

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Karen Jenson - Mustang No 7

She's rich. Not just in money, but in talent as well.

She's daughter of a certain businessman who made his fortune manufacturing a certain brand of washing machine. We will refrain from telling you the name of the product for fear of being accused of giving free advertising. She paints abstract art and in two years made the jump from hanging her pictures in the open-air Hampstead art exhibition to being commissioned to paint portraits of some of England's most notable industrialists and politicians.

She calls herself Karen Jenson, but we suspect it's an assumed name; it wouldn't do to drop the real name of her respected family just anywhere, would it? She's planning to branch out into designing backdrops and stage sets for West End musicals. We doubt if she'd have much trouble there. With or without all her talent, one long, sultry look would soften up most theatre producers. Add a short skirt and a slow, knowing smile and even the hardest heart would melt.

Our pictures of Karen were taken at her own country home, where she gets away from it all on the rare occasions when she has time. Most days it's work, work, work. And most evenings it's play, play, play. There isn't much time for rest, rest, rest. You see, she may be a rich man's daughter, but she's not the kind to let it go to her head. She'd hate to laze around for month after month doing nothing (or so she tells us). She wants to go everywhere and try everything, at least once. And that's why she decided to model for our photographs. Inevitable, really-she's as good at that as she is at everything else. Like we said, a girl with talent.

Mustang No 7 - 1969