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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: Draytonian III on October 18, 2024, 06:56:05 pm

Title: Profumo Affair
Post by: Draytonian III on October 18, 2024, 06:56:05 pm
On the BBC breakfast news programme this morning they were interviewing a radio producer  Nick Lowe, and Mandy Rice Davies’s daughter Dama about a radio programme that’s been made from old tapes that have surfaced. Didn’t Mandy Rice Davies or Christine Keeler have some connection with Doncaster years ago or did I just dream it
Title: Re: Profumo Affair
Post by: Donnywolf on October 21, 2024, 09:20:17 pm
Christine Keeler had three Greyhounds ..... went the joke at the time

You will have to make your own punchline or PM me as it is NOT fit to be on here   :lol:
Title: Re: Profumo Affair
Post by: Spud on October 22, 2024, 10:26:50 am
Never heard the story (I'm way too young lol), until googling just now.
Interesting read, I'm curious re the greyhound punchline now....
Title: Re: Profumo Affair
Post by: Donnywolf on October 22, 2024, 10:46:34 am
I was way to young to get the joke but remember it every time I hear the name Christine Keeler lol

Pm d you
Title: Re: Profumo Affair
Post by: selby on October 22, 2024, 12:31:55 pm
  Mandy Rice Davies, now there is a memory in the sixties in Tel Aviv in her club Mandy's, she was a very clever nice lady, and an absolute stunner.
 
Title: Re: Profumo Affair
Post by: BessieBlue on October 23, 2024, 08:46:25 pm
Do you think you might be mixing the Profumo thing with the John Poulson scandal of the 1970's - to which I recall there was a Doncaster connection?
Title: Re: Profumo Affair
Post by: Draytonian III on October 23, 2024, 11:38:44 pm
No, I’m almost certain that either Christine Keeler or Mandy Rice Davies had a connection to Doncaster, family or friends lived in city or one them had lived there at some time.
John Poulson was a crooked developer who built the Aveimore ski resort in Scotland, I went there in Feb 1975, in fact I had to go a week later than planned as it was closed for a week for an enquiry into the building of it. Extra week of school but I was due to go at half term
Title: Re: Profumo Affair
Post by: silent majority on October 30, 2024, 11:26:54 am
Do you think you might be mixing the Profumo thing with the John Poulson scandal of the 1970's - to which I recall there was a Doncaster connection?

The Doncaster connection with Poulson is that he designed both Coal House and DRI.
Title: Re: Profumo Affair
Post by: selby on October 30, 2024, 09:57:36 pm
Poulson built a stunning house for himself in Darrington, .
Title: Re: Profumo Affair
Post by: BobG on October 31, 2024, 12:05:55 am
One of his sidekicks built and lived in that white painted place (well, it was) at the junction of Warning Tongue Lane and that road that goes past Catherine McAuley. It's on the corner where the continuation of Warning Tongue Lane goes into Old Cantley. He got popped in quod too.

BobG
Title: Re: Profumo Affair
Post by: BessieBlue on November 08, 2024, 08:27:27 pm
That was my recollection Bob - the property close to the roundabout at the junction of Warning Tongue Lane and Cantley Lane.
Title: Re: Profumo Affair
Post by: BobG on November 08, 2024, 11:59:20 pm
Lol. Last time I saw it, it was a crossroads!

 BobG
Title: Re: Profumo Affair
Post by: SydneyRover on November 09, 2024, 12:45:09 am
Do you think you might be mixing the Profumo thing with the John Poulson scandal of the 1970's - to which I recall there was a Doncaster connection?

The Doncaster connection with Poulson is that he designed both Coal House and DRI.

Maybe confused with this?

https://www.theperfumeshop.com/store/doncaster-the-perfume-shop
Title: Re: Profumo Affair
Post by: Sprotyrover on November 09, 2024, 10:24:43 am
Polson built the Police Hq and Courts on College rd, Coal house heated it all plus the Bally Bridge Flats!