Dedicated to the published work of Harrison Marks & other prominent photographers of the 1950's, 60's and early 70's. Along with popular glamour models such as June Palmer, Pamela Green, Dawn Grayson and others
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Well winter has finally landed in the UK this week with the first real hard frosts and snow in places. So this original image of June dressed in gloves, boots and sheepskin coat seems appropriate today.
Note: This is an original image and subject to this copyright notice
Five shots of Trudy Eyre (Angela Duncan) taken by Terry Sparks. As I said in a previous post I hadn’t realized that Terry had taken any photo’s of Trudy until he sent these, but then he explained he had and that her real name (or name on the cheques) was Trudy.
A couple of things you will notice about these shots. Some are very familiar and if you look on some of the vintage forums you will see similar images to these at the same location that have been published in various men’s publications during the late 1960’s and 70’s. Secondly and unfortunate, these images are only small and not up to the usually high standard I get from Terry, but there is a reason for that, which I’m sure Terry won’t mind me sharing. As Terry explains – “My own black/white files, some 27000 negatives were all destroyed in 2003 at the behest of her indoors. Something I have bitterly regretted ever since, as they would have been worth a few bob on Ebay. The only good news is that I took three or four shots of the best girls and transferred them onto a SVHS tape before the destruction took place. I am hoping to be able to digitise the tape onto my PC and then get some prints off, so far without much success.” Well Terry managed to get some images off the tape and those are the ones above.
Hearing Terry’s story I think I was as gutted to hear this story as he was! Think of all those great images I could have shared, but then I realize what I’ve already seen and shared and I’m glad Terry has shared what he managed to retain. Plus we do get a glimpse at some of the models such as Trudy that he had the pleasure of shooting over his career.
Thanks to Terry as always for sharing an insight into his collection :)
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June Palmer posing on the dungeon set for Harrison Marks as she hangs off a set of chains! The 4th shot I’ve published of June posing on this set, with several shots similar to this featured in the Kamera Special ‘The Fabulous June Palmer’ (1964). The shots I’ve published so far can be found here.
Pamela Green in the guise of Rita Landre posing in a raunchy opened shirt shot on the loft set by Harrison Marks. As always, a perfectly executed pose by Pam, to the point that a precisely placed front hand on the bedpost casts a shadow at just the right spot to hide things between her legs. If you look hard you can just see an outline of things though!
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In between new posts and editing images I’m also trying to do updates to the current site content and one area I’m updating is the model profiles I’ve published. I’m currently working through Dawn’s profile, adding more images, adding a small database of magazine appearances, plus I’ll be updating her magazine cover appearances with better images, where I have them. One area that I was missing good covers was her early Beautiful Britons, Spick & Span appearances. In fact I have very little content of her from those appearances overall!
Thankfully that is about to change thanks to the generous support of Jonathan over at Vintage Fetish, who has kindly provided me with images of nearly all Dawn’s cover appearances for Town and Country Publications (ToCo). The above cover is the first good example of Dawn from Spick & Span Extra (Summer 1967), which like most of the covers from that early period has a certain painted effect to it, rather than a simple photo. A stunning cover of Dawn posing in an armchair with her hair in a plat, which I’ve never seen before!
Again, thanks to Jonathan for the covers and do go take a look at his site, as it’s my go to site for all Toco related publications and a great source for identifying unknown UK models.
Ah, the ‘Casting Couch’ as I call it makes another appearance, this time with June Russell posing on it for the lucky cameraman. I’ve posted a couple of June on this couch before here, but she must have had several wardrobe changes, as some she has gloves, panties and sometimes nothing. This one gives us a cracking view of June’s round arse with the black panties pulled up to reveal as much of it as possible without them being removed.
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A shot of the beautiful Maria Clarence posing nude sat atop a dressing table from a huge set of 42 images of her posing in different rooms around a house. This shot is one of 10 of her posing in what seems to be a dressing room area. A stunning shot of her, but I’ve said it before, didn’t she have hairy arms!
Another promotional shot by London photo agency Cowderoy & Moss Ltd featuring June posing on a Lambretta Scooter. This time we see June down at the beach, sat astride the scooter in a fetching pair of striped pants, white cardigan top and scarf, as she hands off her bag to a chap in a beach hut! I always enjoy seeing this different side of June and her non-glamour work during the height of her career. It seems like she had enjoyed posing on Scooters and cars a lot. :)
I’ve managed to get a full set of 36 images of the ‘Oh Nurse!’ set, featuring Angela in the countryside dressed and stripping out of a nurse’s uniform. I’d published those I’d previously found, but I’ll get the rest edited and published when I can. This one is an early shot in the set as it has Angela still clothed, if only just, but bursting out from her tight-fitting bra!
I’ve also had it recently confirmed that her real name was Trudy Eyre by Terry Sparks, or that was the name her wrote on the cheques when he paid her for modelling sessions with him. I didn’t know Terry had even photographed Angela/Trudy, but he’s sent me through a selection of his shots of her and some look very familiar indeed and ended up in some popular men’s publications back in the late 1960s. But those shots are for another day and another post. :)
I thought I’d already published a version of the 1966 Kamera Calendar cover featuring June Palmer, but looking back through my posts it doesn’t seem like it. Anyway a high quality scan of my own copy of of the 1966 cover featuring a wet looking JP on the Roman Bath Set and I don’t think that green dress could cling to any more places on June!
I’ll continue to edit and repost my scans of the other months from 1966 over the coming weeks.
