It is with great sadness that the news has reached us of the passing of Kate’s father, Dr Robert Bush. We would like to extend our deepest sympathies to John, Paddy and Kate and to all of the Bush family and friends.
Dr Bush, with his wife Hannah and daughter Kate during a 1979 TV interview at East Wickham Farm
John Wilding
I wondered if anyone knows if Dr. Bush was a GP?
My godfather swears that he was one of Dr. Bush’s patients.
Peter
Dr. Bush was a GP who practiced in Plumstead.
Lynn
He was my doctor – practiced in Plumstead !!
Ann Squires ne Watson of Liffler Road Plumstead.
He was our doctor my self and husband and two children. He told me I was going to be a mum in 1969 for the first time. We left his practice in 1976 when we move to Tonbridge Kent.
Mike
Hey Ann, how comes you didn’t move just across the Kent boarder to Dartford/Bexleyheath??
I met a friend in SE London other day in Plumstead and walked past Barth road + walked to Plumstead Gardens many memories there!
My friend Fraser him and his family’s GP was Kate’s dad Robert Bush who worked in South East London in Plumstead. And we used to speak to him loads when he finished work or when we was in Kent in Bexleyheath,Welling, Dartford, Swanley, etc, on our bikes.
He sometimes gave us a lift back to Kent from Plumstead-Such a nice man! + sometimes said hello to Hannah as well and she would make us massive jug of coled orange squash + met Kate/Del Palmer few times etc
Great memories I will always cherish! 🥰
Mike
Do you still live in Plumstead, I’m just across the Kent boarder right between Dartford/Bexleyheath 🙂
Joanne Banks
He was our family GP
Roy woolmans
I was patient of Dr Bush in 40s and 50s Often made house calls to my home in Bernares rd Plumstead London
Paul Reeve
Dr Bush was our Family Dr, fond memories of this Man.
I remember the old surgery in Plumstead.
Robert
Hi Where was his surgery.
Thanks
Robbie
Steve
Barth road the surgery is still there but has been re modernised.
Paul
Hi Robert, the first Surgery I remember as a child was on the road from plumstead to Woolwich. As you go from plumstead to Woolwich it was on the left side of the road, a house. We used to walk through the house and out the back and the waiting room was at the back of the garden. Dr Bush’s surgery was in a corridor through the house, his surgery had a sliding door. I think the house was before you got to the fire station at lake dale road. I think the surgery then moved to bath road.
Regards Paul Reeve.
Mike
It is still there in Barth Road!
steve hall
Dr Bush was my GP from 1976 to 1985. His surgery was on Barth Road Plumstead London SE18.
Mike
Where you live now Steve, I’m in Kent right between Dartford/Bexleyheath 🙂
My friend Fraser him and his family’s GP was Kate’s dad Robert Bush who worked in South East London in Plumstead. And we used to speak to him loads when he finished work or when we was in Kent in Bexleyheath,Welling, Dartford, Swanley, etc, on our bikes.
He sometimes gave us a lift back to Kent from Plumstead-Such a nice man! + sometimes said hello to Hannah as well and she would make us massive jug of coled orange squash + met Kate/Del Palmer few times etc
Great memories I will always cherish! 🥰
Paul
Before the surgery went to bath road. I think it use to be over the other side of the Plumstead Woolwich road. You use to walk through the house out the back and right at the back of the garden was a waiting room. Dr Bush had a sliding door on His surgery which was through a passage through the house from what I remember. A lovely man.
Robert Peto
Dr Bush was our family GP from 1976.
Absolute amazing man.
Fond memories of meeting Kate in the surgery waiting room.
As a young 7 year old I have vivid memories of Dr Bush with an amazing moustache.
Tony Khouri
He was my doctor too and we knew Hannah
Adam
He was my GP in the 1970s. At the time, the surgery was at the corner of Plumstead High Street and Church Manorway. Perhaps it moved to Barth Street later on.
Keith Parkin
Hi i wonder if anyone can possibly tell me if Kates father had a practice in Barnstaple N Devon in the late 50s & early 60s , we’ve been trying to resolve this issue for years ? my brother and i vividly recall a doctor R Bush who olso had a young daughter,or could this be just a strange coincidence !
Penny Johnson
Think so. Think he brought me into the world
Anne Lee
Around the time you have mentioned Dr.Bush had his practice in Plumstead and some of my friends used to go to his home, at Welling, to listen to music and use swimming pool .Never got an invite myself – though I tried hard to wriggle an invitation haha. Kate was a baby back then
Rich Thompson
In the early 80s my father told me his GP in Barnstaple was Dr Bush, father of Kate Bush the singer
Wendy Humphreys
I think rumour has it that he was a obi/gyn doctor at Highfield maternity hospital in Barnstaple, I’m not sure when but it is a rumour and quite a few babies were delivered by him allegedly that’s all I know
Peter
He used to be my uncle vic’s GP in plumstead many moons ago he also long passed in 1988