An introduction to Jubilee House

Jubilee House (once East Wymering Farm) on Medina Road provides continuing nursing care and the building was recently renovated and redecorated. A new Visitors’ Room was created and the staff wanted to display a collage showing the building’s history. Friends of Old Wymering stepped in, answering their call in The News for help in finding information and we also offered to fund the project.

Janet Hird, carried out the research, unearthing pictures and information going back centuries. The building was originally a farmhouse and is not the first on the site. We found out that since 1935 Jubilee House had been a pioneer in developing several new types of services, first for the blind, then for older people and now for providing continuing nursing care. The photos and a brief narrative text were printed and professionally framed, creating four large pictures. These were presented to Jubilee House in time for their official opening in September. The hospital staff were delighted with the result and visitors have been intrigued by the building’s past.