Clevedon - The Promenade Prior to 1959. And 'The Shaggy Dog'.

            The Postcard

A Collo Colour Series postcard that was published by Valentine & Sons Ltd. of Dundee and London.

The card was posted in Clevedon, Somerset on Thursday the 19th. March 1959 to:

Miss H. Houston,
489, Canterbury Street,
Gillingham,
Kent.

The message on the divided back was as follows:

"Thursday.
I'm still getting around
quite a bit. Weston -S. M.
yesterday, Clevedon again
today.
Thank you for your present,
I was very pleased with it.
I will write you a letter at
the weekend.
Much love,
Ann".

Clevedon

Clevedon is an English seaside town in North Somerset. It recorded a population of 21,281 in the census of 2011.

Clevedon lies along the Severn Estuary, among small hills that include Church Hill, Wain's Hill (topped by the remains of an Iron Age hill fort), Dial Hill, Strawberry Hill, Castle Hill, Hangstone Hill and Court Hill, a Site of Special Scientific Interest with overlaid Pleistocene deposits. 

Clevedon, which features in the Domesday Book of 1086, grew in the Victorian period as a seaside resort.

Clevedon Pier, which opened in 1869, is one of the earliest surviving examples of a Victorian pier. On the 17th. October 1970, two outward spans collapsed when the seventh set of legs from the shore failed during a routine insurance load test. 

A trust was eventually formed, and the pier and its buildings were restored and reopened on the 27th. May 1989, when the Waverley paddle steamer berthed and took on passengers. 

The Dalai Lama

So what else happened on the day that Ann posted the card?

Well, on the 19th. March 1959, after the Beijing government ordered the Dalai Lama to report without his bodyguards, fighting broke out in Lhasa, Tibet, as Tibetans battled Chinese troops. 

The Chinese government stated that thousands of rebels had attacked Lhasa and had been defeated after a two-day battle by Chinese troops.


'The Shaggy Dog'

Also on that day, 'The Shaggy Dog' was first shown.

The Shaggy Dog is an American comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and loosely based on the 1923 novel The Hound of Florence by Felix Salten. 

Directed by Charles Barton from a screenplay by Lillie Hayward and Bill Walsh, the film stars Fred MacMurray, Tommy Kirk, Jean Hagen, Kevin Corcoran, Tim Considine, Roberta Shore, and Annette Funicello. 

The film follows a teenage boy named Wilby Daniels who, by the power of an enchanted ring of the Borgias, is transformed into a shaggy Old English Sheepdog.

The film grossed over $9 million during its initial release, making it the second-highest grossing film of 1959. 

Disney produced a successful sequel in 1976 called The Shaggy D.A. which starred Dean Jones, Tim Conway, and Suzanne Pleshette. 

It was followed by a 1987 television sequel, a 1994 television remake and a 2006 theatrical remake.
   

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