In the Mail Online today Pat Stewart, 82, talks about going back to the place where she was famously photographed, aged 17…

…wearing a beautiful 1950s outfit, and tells Charlie Moore what inspired her to write about it 65 years later:

“It turned into a book called The Girl in the Spotty Dress which I’m very proud of…When the publishers sent me a copy I couldn’t look at it at first because I thought what if it’s dreadful? But I picked it up and I laughed, I cried, I couldn’t put it down.”

Pat co-wrote the memoir with Veronica Clark. Buy it here

Read the article which features many pictures of Pat as a Tiller Girl in the 50s and 60s here