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'''St Michael's Guest House''', located in St Michael's Road, [[Bournemouth]], near the Triangle, was a small guest house operating in the 1980s with a more or less exclusively gay clientele.
[[File:St Michaels.jpg|thumb|St Michael's Guest House (no longer gay) in 2017]]'''St Michael's Guest House''', located at 42 St Michael's Road, [[Bournemouth]], near the Triangle, was a small guest house operating in the 1980s with a more or less exclusively gay clientele. Its proprietor, [[John Eaddie]], was revealed in 2021 to have been the first man in the UK to have died of AIDS.


When fire safety legislation required all bedroom doors to be self-closing, John, the proprietor, issued the guests with door-stops so that they could if they wished leave their doors open at night as an invitation.
== Vox Pop ==
''[Vox Pop entries are personal recollections by individual contributors.]''
 
My then partner and I stayed at St Michael's many times in the 1970s and had some interesting encounters with other guests. When fire safety legislation required all bedroom doors to be self-closing, John issued the guests with door-stops so that they could if they wished leave their doors open at night as an invitation.


[[Category: Hotels and guest houses]]
[[Category: Hotels and guest houses]]
[[Category:Bournemouth]]
[[Category:Bournemouth]]

Latest revision as of 07:25, 19 November 2021

St Michael's Guest House (no longer gay) in 2017

St Michael's Guest House, located at 42 St Michael's Road, Bournemouth, near the Triangle, was a small guest house operating in the 1980s with a more or less exclusively gay clientele. Its proprietor, John Eaddie, was revealed in 2021 to have been the first man in the UK to have died of AIDS.

Vox Pop

[Vox Pop entries are personal recollections by individual contributors.]

My then partner and I stayed at St Michael's many times in the 1970s and had some interesting encounters with other guests. When fire safety legislation required all bedroom doors to be self-closing, John issued the guests with door-stops so that they could if they wished leave their doors open at night as an invitation.