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5 unusual facts about John Poulson


Eddie Milne

These were eventually revealed in the Poulson Affair involving corruption leading Labour movement figures Andrew Cunningham and T. Dan Smith.

John Cordle

He was Member of Parliament for Bournemouth East and Christchurch from 1959 to 1974, and after boundary changes, for Bournemouth East from 1974 to 1977, when he resigned as a result of the John Poulson scandal.

Sport in Leeds

Leeds' first major pool was the Leeds International Pool, designed by disgraced architect, John Poulson, this opened in 1967 and was inches too narrow to qualify as an Olympic standard pool.

The Death List

Hacker refers to a character reference he gave for Emil Savundra, and a party he attended at the house of John Poulson, referring to two major scandals of the 1960s and 1970s.

Yana Mintoff

The subject was a scandal involving British architect John Poulson and the building of a "white elephant" hospital in Gozo.


Frederick Gibberd

A further achievement by Gibberd in planning Harlow is his incorporation of works by many leading architects of the post-war years, such as FRS Yorke, Powell & Moya, Graham Dawbarn, John Poulson, Maxwell Fry & Jane Drew, Michael Neylan, William Crabtree, Leonard Manasseh, ECP Monson, Gerard Goalen, Gerald Lacoste, Richard Sheppard and H. T. Cadbury-Brown.


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