Profumo Affair

[Draytonian III]

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

[Donnywolf]

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   

[Spud]

Never heard the story (I'm way too young lol), until googling just now.
Interesting read, I'm curious re the greyhound punchline now....

[Donnywolf]

I was way to young to get the joke but remember it every time I hear the name Christine Keeler lol

Pm d you

[selby]

  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.
 

[BessieBlue]

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?

[Draytonian III]

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

[silent majority]

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.

[selby]

Poulson built a stunning house for himself in Darrington, .

[BobG]

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

[BessieBlue]

That was my recollection Bob - the property close to the roundabout at the junction of Warning Tongue Lane and Cantley Lane.

[BobG]

Lol. Last time I saw it, it was a crossroads!

 BobG

[SydneyRover]

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

[Sprotyrover]

Polson built the Police Hq and Courts on College rd, Coal house heated it all plus the Bally Bridge Flats!