Very little is recorded about John Bulbeck Snr., other than can be found in a newspaper cutting announcing his death at the age of 72 in 1872 at his Havant residence.
“He was, in every respect a public man, having been in business many years at the Victoria House which premises he built at the corner of East Street, and South Street. He had been a member of the Board of Guardians and the Havant Local Board for a great number of years, and a Director of the Havant Gas Company and Havant Town Hall Company. He lies in the cemetery attached to St. Joseph'-s Roman Catholic Church at Havant.”
One of the few remaining memories of John Bulbeck can be found built into the wall bounding the southern boundary of Bulbeck Road named after him.