Queen Square, St. John, New Brunswick
A postcard published by The McCoy Printing Company of Moncton, NB,
mailed from St. John on June 24, 1904 with a 2¢ KEVII stamp to
Miss Lyon, Bleak House, Hamilton Bermuda
with a June 30, 1904 Devonshire, Bermuda receiving cancel
At the time of the card’s mailing, Bleak House was officers’ quarters for the British military. Bleak House has a 300 year old history, starting as Palmetto House, one of Bermuda's oldest and finest pieces of architecture, built in the early 1700s by landowner William Williams, and recently restored.
In 1868 it was expropriated by the British military to be part of the Prospect Garrison, becoming officers quarters and later the garrison's golf club house, until partially reconstructed in the late 1940s.
The name “Bleak House” came from its linkage to four separate murders and suspicious deaths early in it’s history.
Below, reverse of card
