THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

In the 1970s and ’80s, Paul Raymond would glide around Soho in his Rolls-Royce with blacked-out windows and the personalised registration plate PR 11. Doors would open as if he were a Hollywood celebrity. He would make a flamboyant entrance in his immaculate suit and man-bag. He was brazen, once offering the newsreader Anna Ford £75,000 to reveal all in his magazine Club International (she declined). “I like to look at nude birds and I think most normal men do,” he said.

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