Hastings Forum

Following all you super sleuth information, I contacted Peter Peter@workhouses.org.uk. A workhouse historian. He confirmed that it was definitely a convalescent boarding establishment run by William Albert Mathews. It was in operation by 1905 at 32 Holmesdale Gardens where the hermitage flats now st...

This is all so interesting. I will post the postcard online when I get it back from my mother-in-law. She is loving all of this!!!
Thanks to one and all!

WOW Hollyblue!!! This really does sound like it could have been what my mother-in-law was thinking of!!! _ How exciting!!! - She doesn't always have the bestest of memories but she remembered her grandfather working for the London newspapers!!!
Thank you sooo much for all of this!!!

Thank you all so much for all this information even if we really are no closer to finding out what Bushby House was. I did notice that the dog in the 1910 postcard was in my relatives card in 1912 too!!! My old mother in law(she's 90) said that she had thought that as one of her family worked for th...

I will scan the postcard but it is very similar to the e-bay one with a lot of people but dated 1912! It is so strange that it exsisted and that we can't find any info on it - I thought maybe it was a convalescence home or something??!!! Must keep trying 'cos it really is quite exciting to know what...

Can anyone give me any information on "The Bushby Home" in Hastings?
I found a postcard from a relative dated 1912. I have no idea what the home was or anything??

Any info will be greatly appreciated......
Thanks