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Post card picture of 5 Old Orchard Road, Eastbourne in September 1913.
In the enlargement the name "Baylands" is visible on the front gate.

Ellen Isabel Gilbert, widow of David Gilbert junior (1861-1902), and her six children - Ellen, Charlotte, David, Mary, William and Richard - moved from 15 The Avenue to "Baylands", 5 Old Orchard Road, Eastbourne on 24 November 1909. The house was (and still is) situated on the south side of Old Orchard Road, behind Eastbourne Public Library.

The family had moved from 15 The Avenue, Eastbourne

The family of David (junior) and Ellen Isabel Gilbert

Robert Morris's (Uckfield) diary;
29 November 1909; "Mrs. Gilbert has moved into her new house at No.5 Old Orchard Road."
21 March 1910; "'Bogey' - The Gilbert's dog, fell over the cliff at Beachy Head yesterday and was, of course, killed."
'Bogey' the dog was replaced by 'Pharoah'.

Alice L Morris (1859-1922, aunt of the Gilbert children) in the garden of 5 Old Orchard Road around 1913, with the dovecote and Pharoah the dog. The chair was one of several thousand made for guests at the Pevensey Pageant in July 1908, and one of four bought by the Gilberts afterwards. We still have two of them including, almost certainly, this one!

In the same location as the previous picture, here are four of the six Gilbert children; William, Ellen, David and (seated, perhaps in the same Pevensey chair?) Charlotte. David was sadly not to survive World War One.

Mary Gilbert (1889-1976) and Pharoah the dog in the garden of 5 Old Orchard Road in 1918.

There was a pigeon cote and a bee hive (both Ellen and Charlotte kept bees) in the garden. The property seems to have been known in the family as "5 Orchard Road" but, as far as I can tell, there never was an Orchard Road in Eastbourne, and the house in question is beyond doubt in Old Orchard Road. The family left Old Orchard Road and moved a few streets away to 22 Upper Avenue in 1921.

The family moved to 22 Upper Avenue, Eastbourne in 1921.

Ellen Gilbert (1885-1988, she lived to be 102!), Pharoah the dog and a beehive in the garden of 5 Old Orchard Road in 1919.

The house was still standing in 1999, behind the Eastbourne Public Library, occupied by a chiropractor.

The front of the house remained largely unchanged when photographed (above) by H R Gilbert in 1994, although the ivy, the chimneys and the wrought iron gate had gone.