Located within the Belfast City Hospital complex off the Lisburn Road. Jubilee Road does not appear in the 1967 Belfast Street Directory and seems to have originated as an internal access route serving the hospital grounds. As part of redevelopment in the late 20th and early 21st centuries — including new residential buildings such as Bradbury Court — the roadway was formalised and entered the public street system under the name Jubilee Road.
The name is very likely derived from the former Jubilee Maternity Hospital, opened on the site in 1935 and widely known locally as the Jubilee. The maternity hospital in turn is likely to have been named in honour of King George V’s Silver Jubilee that same year. Across the UK, 1935 saw a wave of buildings, wards, parks and charitable projects adopting the name Jubilee to mark the monarch’s 25-year reign, and Belfast was no exception. For a new civic health facility, such a name would have been typical of the occasion.
When maternity services were transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital in 2000 and the unit closed, the name still held strong local associations with the Lisburn Road hospital campus. Naming the new access road Jubilee Road would have preserved this long-standing connection and maintained continuity with the site’s history.