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Bournemouth - Glencairn Manor Hotel

            The Postcard

A postcard that was published by Eversheds of St. Albans, Herts. On the back of the card is printed:

'Glencairn Manor Hotel.
Fully Licensed to Residents.
East Cliff, Bournemouth.

Sadly the Glencairn Manor Hotel, which started off life as a Victorian villa in its own grounds, has gone the way of many privately owned hotels in British seaside resorts - it was demolished in 1995, and replaced by block of flats called The Manor.

The card was posted in Bournemouth using a 2½p stamp on Tuesday the 27th. April 1971. It was sent to:

Mrs. M. Arnson,
96, Henwick Road,
St. John's,
Worcester.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"Tuesday.
x marks our bedroom, 
very pleased & we can
just see the sea.
Meant to ring you last
week, but it was all go
somehow.
It is very pleasant today
after the cold yesterday -
but no snow.
Hope you are well.
Love Eileen & Cliff." 

A Massacre

So what else happened on the day that Eileen and Cliff posted the card?

Well, on the 27th. April 1971, Pakistani Army troops and militia of the Convention Muslim League faction, led by Kazi Abdul Kader, carried out the murder of 300 Hindu civilians.

The civilians had gathered at the marketplace in Kaliganj village in what is now Bangladesh's Jaldhaka district, as they were preparing to cross the border to safety in India.

Hank Aaron

Also on that day, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves became only the third player in U.S. Major League Baseball to hit 600 home runs in his career, a feat previously achieved by Babe Ruth and by Willie Mays. 

On the 21st. July 1973, Hank became only the second player (other than Babe Ruth) to hit 700 home runs in his career.

Hank experienced recism early in his career. He recalled:

"We had breakfast while we were waiting for the 
rain to stop, and I can still envision sitting in a 
restaurant behind Griffith Stadium and hearing 
them break all the plates in the kitchen after we 
finished eating. What a horrible sound. 
Even as a kid, the irony of it hit me: here we were 
in the capital in the land of freedom and equality, 
and they had to destroy the plates that had touched 
the forks that had been in the mouths of black men. 
If dogs had eaten off those plates, they'd have 
washed them."
   

Taken on: February 20, 2024

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