Spills
It’s a fact Spick, Span and Beautiful Britons found their way into so many consciousnesses, evidenced by the simple truth I wouldn’t be writing this now and the likes of Vintage Fetish wouldn’t exist in the same way (and get the biggest response to its ToCo content). Towards the end of the 1990s, a gentleman in Northampton devoted a lot of time and money into reviving Spick and Span under the guise of Spills. The format, lay-out and photography were a complete clone, with the introductory editorial paying due tribute. The Editor EE Hamilton and the Photograph Editor Nick Herbert did not exist. Spills was a one-man band. There were only four photo-spreads. The cover girl Karlene Morgan and the first model Lucy Gresty were both very familiar on the top-shelf circuit of the day; in fact, Ms Gresty is still reputedly alive and well on the internet today. The other ladies, Julie Brown and Louise May, were not so, but they could not have been regarded as typically ToCo, in other words totally exclusive to the publication. There may have been just one more issue of Spills before it bit the dust. £5 for such a slender volume was always pushing it and there was no way the major distributors would take it on. The capital cost of printing it and marketing it was obviously unsustainable so Spills mor eor less died before it was born. A shame because the publisher was a nice and genuine fellow with a good technical command of the camera. But just two years later, we were up and running online with Joanne’s Lovely Leg Show. EE Hamilton had missed the boat.