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Three more shots of Cherry (Cherri) Gilham following on from these I’ve already published. Taken by Terry Sparks, they again show Cherry posing in different ways in a chain bikini on set amongst the pillows. The final image also gives us another glimpse of her full and glorious bush, which is more than you normally saw from her in her page 3 days!
Thanks as always to Terry for sharing his work with me and being able to post it on this site.
A second shot of Venetia Day by Terry Sparks whilst on location in Rhodes in 1971. Unlike the first shot here, this is a wider shot of her, soaking wet with her arms out wide, as she stands in the sea. I love the pose and how the water glistens on her wet dark body. Another stunning shot shared by Terry :)
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Sent through by Terry, two pages from Charm No.25 (1955) starring a small breasted blonde model. As Terry explains, “I was having a bit of a clear out last weekend when I came across my old copy of “Charm” magazine no. 25, published around 1955 or 1956. It cost the princely sum of 1/6d (75p in modern currency) and the only reason I kept it all these years, is because in it are the first two nudes that I ever had published, I guess I was around 18 or 19 at the time.” Two stunning shots and worthy of sharing, just to see the first published shots from Terry that set him on a path of glamour photography. Thanks Terry and the model looks familiar, but can’t quite name her?
Sorry for the lack of posts recently, but sometimes life conspires against you and you have to focus on the important things!
Another shot from Terry Sparks and this is Dinah Challen and completes the trio of models taken and photographed in Rhodes. The three models are Dinah, Venetia Day and Marianne Morris and I’ve republished the image of all three in the surf below. Terry provided some information about Dinah, but he lost touch with her after we returned to the UK. As far as he is aware these were the only pictures she ever had taken, but he may well be wrong.
After Marianne Morris from the ‘Rhodes Rears’ shot by Terry Sparks, we now have the second of the trio in the stunning form of Venetia Day. Terry sent these through after my last Marianne post and I must admit I hadn’t come across Venetia before, but glad I have now! A stunning shot of her body as she poses in the sea for Terry and I love how the water glistens on her body in the above shot. After seeing Venetia I went off to do a little research about her and found out much more about her. She caused quite a stir at the Earls Court Car Show in 1971, by posing in nothing other than a pair of white bikini bottom’s on the F1 cars from that year. The same year she also appeared in Mayfair and made several soft appearances in glamour films.
Some more shots of Marianne Morris (modelling as Vicki Pascale) who has already appeared on this site before with two other models. Terry took Marianne and the other two models to Rhodes in the May of 1971 and took the above shots of her posing in the sea. The top shot comes direct from Terry’s collection, hence the better quality, but on my Internet trawls I also found the two page colour shots of Marianne. At least one of the images was obviously taken by Terry in Rhodes and these images were published in a German magazine called Das Neue Sunny Girl Vol.5 No.3. I’ve also found several other images of the 3 models posing for Terry in Rhodes that appear in other German publications, so will post those separately.
Finally Terry has now sent me several of his own shots of the black girl that appears in the ‘Rhodes 3‘ shot, who was a model named Venetia Day, but more of her to come later as well :)
After my first post of Cherry Gilham by Terry a few weeks ago, a few more revealing shots of her this time! From the same set of Cherry posing amongst the cushions in a chain bikini bottom, we get to see her beautiful smile and even more! One can only admire the magnificence of that lush thick pussy on d it’s well worth seeing, even if in the second shot she’s trying to hide it from us. I don’t believe these were ever published, but Terry can correct me if I’m wrong, which is a shame as they are well worth seeing, but I do wonder if Benny Hill ever got a view like this? Thanks to Terry for sharing these wonderful shots.
As I’ve just come back from my holidays, what better way to kick things off again than with a beach view from the Terry Sparks archive! This is Marianne Morris (modelling as Vicki Pascale) who has already appeared on this site before with two other models here, she is the one in the middle. Terry took Marianne and the other two models to Rhodes in the May 1971 and this shot of her kneeling in the shallows is one of four that Terry sent through. Marianne later went on to do a spread in Mayfair and also had quite a large part in the film “Vampyres”, also as a model she worked under the model agency run by non-other than June Palmer! What a great body, but not sure if that is a real necklace or a set of buoys around her neck! Thanks to Terry for a fabulous shot.
Just when I thought I’d run out of stuff sent through by Terry Sparks, a load of new images of his work arrive in the mail from him :)
This is Cherry Gilham who Terry discovered in 1971 and this is the first nude she ever posed for in March 1972, along with 12 others that Terry sent through from the same set. They all show Cherry posing amongst the cushions with this chain bikini bottom and range from topless like this to fully nude exposing a fine bush! Cherry is probably more well known for appearing with Benny Hill in the 1970s on the ‘Benny Hill Show’, as one of the bevy of beauties that used to regularly appear on the show. I was a big fan of the show myself and used to love seeing the speeded up chase sequences where Benny chased the scantily clad women, or they chased him. All good tongue in cheek smutty fun back then, but it seems behind the scenes things got a bit more naughty! Cherry also admitted in her autobiography that she gave Benny several blowjobs in his house after filming was over for the day, naughty girl! As well as working on the Benny Hill show, Cherry also appeared numerous times on the Sun’s Page 3, several film parts and wrote a regular column in the Daily Mail newspaper. There is plenty out there about Cherry if you Google her name, but I, for one, love this shot from Terry and the others that I’ll sort out soon.
A big thank you as ever to Terry for allowing me to share his work from back then. I find his insight and little anecdotes about the models and his time with them so fascinating and always a pleasure to share.
The final shot of Franni Leigh I have that was sent through by Terry Sparks. This one has Franni posing in the sea down at a favourite location of Terry’s, Pegwell Bay in Kent and although there is clear blue sky it still looks a little nippy in that sea! Terry confirmed that this was a good location to use because as he says – ‘You were right about Franni Leigh being photographed at Pegwell Bay. That was a location I used a lot in the 1960’s and early 70’s. It was an area frequented by the Gay boys, this of course was when attitudes to homosexuality were very different to today, so it had the advantage that as soon as you produced a camera everyone promptly disappeared and you had the beach to yourself.’
So you could say Franni took her clothes off and all the men went running in the opposite direction, not a normal reaction to such a beauty :) Thanks to Terry for the anecdote and cracking shot of Franni.
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