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− | '''St Michael's Guest House''', located | + | [[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 | + | == Vox Pop == |
+ | ''[Vox Pop entries are personal recollections by individual contributors.]'' | ||
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+ | 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]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 07:25, 19 November 2021
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.