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Author Bob Strange was stunned when he stumbled across the secret X-rated pictures – with black and white photos of dominatrixes found carefully hidden between a pile of vinyl records
Lord Lucan’s extraordinary personal porn stash and a hardcore book on sexual fetishes were found inside the cardboard box.
The black and white photos of dominatrixes were carefully hidden between a pile of vinyl records. Author Bob Strange was stunned when he stumbled across the secret X-rated pictures. They were just part of the huge trove which included Lord Lucan ’s cheque book, his Ladbrokes betting account, a milk bill and repairs to an electric kettle.
He also has Lucan’s cap, camera, hip flask, typewriter, house keys, printing kit, a bracelet with the lyric of a Beatles song engraved and music magazines. Bizarrely there were even several pieces of gynaecological equipment. But it was Lucan’s porn collection that stunned Bob who said: “I found a considerable pile of old vinyl 78 records.
“And when I started looking through the wrapping paper that had been individually wrapped around every single one – I found some interesting material. Lucan had a whole host of these rather raunchy pictures, not dealing with ordinary straight sex porn, if I can put it that way. They’re all in the slightly fetish, deviant sort of way.
“They’ve been cut out or roughly torn from magazines. And of course, in Lucan’s day – before days of the Internet – he couldn’t just look up a website to find this sort of material. You had to really go hunting for it. And in a Soho sex shop under the counter, he would have been able to buy contact magazines that would give the names and telephone numbers of the sort of women that he clearly had an interest in.”
Bob added: “There was also a book called the Outer Fringe of Sex. It’s a study in sexual fetishism and it has got a whole host of pictures. The ones he was interested in he turned down the corners of books at pages.”
Mirror Online revealed how Bob bought the items for £1.87 – the cost of a cup of coffee – from an accountant back in 1994. The Metropolitan Police had allowed the accountant access to Lucan’s London flat so he could get information to try and clear his debts.
He took all these items and they have remained in a cardboard box for 50 years. Bob said there was an extraordinary range of items. There is the details of Lucan’s Ladbrokes betting account in which he had a £55 Yankee on four horses called Montmartre, Chadleigh, Avancer and Chartro on September 20th 1973 – he lost every penny.
There’s a £43.80 milk bill from Express Dairy and a letter from the Mirabelle Club demanding payment on outstanding bills. And two bracelets which have been engraved with the words from two Beatles songs: Love is all you need and all you need is love. And there was a handwritten letter from a friend called “Paul” who was furious with Lucan’s decision to pull out of a business trip. It was dated 27th March.
It read: “Dear Lucky. Yesterday I was disappointed to hear from Barclay that complications were going to prevent you from making the QE2 crossing next month. Damned poor planning, I’d say, and not beyond remedy if you get with it. Dunhill will never get this kind of promotion off the ground if the best they can do is Holland.
“Derek, Martyn, the Cookes (2), Vieto and assorted others. (This group clearly lacks dignity and I can’t do it all) You have just twenty days to set your house in order. I expect to see you at the Cunard Dock here in N.Y. on April 14th. Yours ever. Paul.”
“There really are all sorts of things in the box,” said Bob. “All this has been kicking around with me for the last 30 years now. He’s got an Italian camera. I have checked, and unfortunately, there isn’t any film in it. There is also a typed list of his creditors and Coutts bank statements. As well as his porn collection there are children’s magazines. They were obviously bought by him for his children to read when they came to visit after he split from his wife.”