Thorp House Care Home

Thorp House Care Home Thorp House offers top notch nursing, residential and dementia care in a peaceful and picturesque setting in the village of Griston, near Watton.

Residents appreciate beautifully decorated bedrooms and the wonderful country garden.

A nice ladies afternoon with cheese crackers and of course some wine.🍷 Thorp House Care Home
14/11/2025

A nice ladies afternoon with cheese crackers and of course some wine.🍷

Thorp House Care Home

VIP Remembrance Lunch to Honour Care Home residents 🌹Guests from across Norfolk came together to show their respects at ...
14/11/2025

VIP Remembrance Lunch to Honour Care Home residents 🌹
Guests from across Norfolk came together to show their respects at a poignant Remembrance Day event in Downham Market.
The event was to honour Kingsley Healthcare Group care home residents
from Thorp House in Griston, Buckingham Lodge in Watton and Downham Grange in Downham Market
and was attended by honoured guests including representatives from RAF Marham, Norfolk Constabulary, RNLI, Anna Chaplaincy, Downham Town Council and The Rawthey Project.
Residents and Guests enjoyed music followed by Lunch served by Downham Grange Head Chef Dave Crooke who served in the Army Catering Corps in the Household Cavalry Knightsbridge, London seeing active service across the world in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Léon, Iraq and Afghanistan spanning over 27 years.
He has served in 18 different regiments before ending with the Number One Masterchef position within the British Army honouring his culinary career. 👏
Kingsley Healthcare Community Engagement Coordinator (East) Marcia Hughes thanked residents for their contributions in WW2 which involved childhood experience to Service within the RAF, WREN, Land Army, ATS and the British Army and reflected on memories of terrible hardship and sacrifice to celebrations of liberation.
Downham Market Mayor, Cllr Michael Lane also spoke of his “great admiration and respect for our servicemen and women past and present”.
Residents’ memories were read out remembering one as a child of 9 who had to learn how to put on a gas mask as part of her school lesson and another of a young man of 18 and the atrocities he was faced with on Sword Beach 15 hours after the first invasion.
Residents were then presented with a Remembrance Day gift by the VIP guests followed by an ovation of thanks for their “resilience” and reassured that their “stories and sacrifices would not be forgotten”
The day was also represented by Captain Emma Hallums from the Rawthey Project, who served 26 years in the Army Air Corps serving in Afghanistan, Ireland and the Balkans.
The Rawthey Project is one of Kingsley Healthcare chosen charities, a volunteer led organisation which continues to support anyone in need but predominantly Ex and Current Service men and women who may need physical, mental and emotional support including PTSD after discharge from the Armed Forces which sadly many people still struggle to talk about.










This Sunday is our Sunday Social Club, why not pop in for a cuppa and a chat with our lovely residents at 2pm
12/11/2025

This Sunday is our Sunday Social Club, why not pop in for a cuppa and a chat with our lovely residents at 2pm

This morning residents have filled up our bird feeders and also used some feeders that were very kindly donated by a res...
12/11/2025

This morning residents have filled up our bird feeders and also used some feeders that were very kindly donated by a residents family.
They have all been placed in the garden near windows so the birds and probably the squirrels too can be watched from inside,

A huge thank you to those of you who have already donated. We still have a few weeks left so if you'd like to donate ite...
11/11/2025

A huge thank you to those of you who have already donated. We still have a few weeks left so if you'd like to donate items or even a completed box just drop them in. THANK YOU!

This morning Thorp House Care Home we read passages from Betty's War Time Diary, a Norfolk girls diary from war time in ...
11/11/2025

This morning Thorp House Care Home we read passages from Betty's War Time Diary, a Norfolk girls diary from war time in Norfolk. We also observed the 2 minutes silence.
Some of the team wore 1940's dresses to mark the day.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.

Getting ready for remembrance day...Lest we forget.. Thorp House Care Home
09/11/2025

Getting ready for remembrance day...
Lest we forget..

Thorp House Care Home

Our poor maintenance man Lee worked so hard to rake all the leaves up in the garden then two naughty carers ambushed him...
07/11/2025

Our poor maintenance man Lee worked so hard to rake all the leaves up in the garden then two naughty carers ambushed him.
Kingsley Healthcare Group Thorp House Care Home

This morning Down Melody Lane visited Thorp House, such a wonderful morning, with lots of smiles and singing, just wonde...
07/11/2025

This morning Down Melody Lane visited Thorp House, such a wonderful morning, with lots of smiles and singing, just wonderful.🎵🎵🎵
Kingsley Healthcare Group Thorp House Care Home

Remember remember the 5th November 🎆🎇Firework art today, a little messy flicking paint around but it was so much fun. ...
05/11/2025

Remember remember the 5th November 🎆🎇
Firework art today, a little messy flicking paint around but it was so much fun.

This November we will be collecting items for the Project Shoebox Wayland, such a worth while project. If any of our fam...
03/11/2025

This November we will be collecting items for the Project Shoebox Wayland, such a worth while project. If any of our families, staff or followers would like to donate, we would appreciate any items suitable for the boxes, there is a list of items in the photos below. Also, if you have any empty shoe boxes it would be very helpfull. Thank you for your support.

Today our residents made their own poppies, and after lunch we decorated for Rememberance Sunday and Armistice Day. Also...
03/11/2025

Today our residents made their own poppies, and after lunch we decorated for Rememberance Sunday and Armistice Day. Also we have our British Legion Poppy Appeal box in reception

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Church Road, Griston, Watton
Thetford
IP256QA

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