Baynton began to play snooker and billiards at Peckham Health Centre, teaching herself, from the age of 11.

Three years after taking up the games, she was the girls champion at both snooker and billiards.

[1][2][3] After a highly successful playing career in which she won a record eight Women's Amateur Snooker Championships between 1954 and 1968, and seven Women's Amateur Billiards championships between 1955 and 1980, she retired from competition for several years.

[4] When the World Women's Snooker Championship was staged in 1976, Baynton entered, reaching the semi-final, where she lost to Muriel Hazeldene.

[6][7] Throughout her career, she used the cue that she received, aged 10, for winning the Schoolgirls Championship in 1947.