… As there were no proper hotels in Jamshedpur to lodge the Allied forces, Bartholomew’s son John was asked to build one hastily! Using bricks from his kiln and cutlery bought from Lord’s, a Calcutta hotel that was closing down, he set up The Boulevard Hotel in December 1940 …
Quoted from:
Real steel: Jamshedpur’s little-known war history, By Priya Ganapathy and Anurag Mallick, published in the Condé Nast Traveller India, 28 May 2015.
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