Address: New Park House, 1 Hanyards Lane, Cuffley
Open: 1968 – 1984
Number of ISN survivors that lived at New Park House children’s home. 16: 7 men and 9 women
1960s: 0 boys 1 girl
1970s 3 boys 8 girls
1980s 4 boys 0 girls
Numbers of children named by ISN survivors as living at New Park House children’s home: 88
44 boys and 44 girls
1960s: 6 boys 9 girls
1970s: 19 boys 22 girls
1980s: 19 boys 13 girls
Numbers of children named in documents as living at New Park House children’s home:
1977 council minutes state the this home is a group home for 17 children.
17 children mainly adolescent boys in 1978 ( 22.6.78 Herts & Essex Observer)
Residential staff named by ISN survivors as working in New Park House children’s home: 30: 14 men and 16 women (1968- 1984)
Life at this children’s home This information will be added soon
“I had a magic fever I had it very bad, bad, bad, they wrapped me in a blanket and threw me in a van, van, van, the van was very bumpy I nearly tumbled out, out, out, and when I got to New Park House I heard the children shout, Mummy Daddy take me home from this horrible children’s home I’ve been here a year or two now they are abusing me and you!” Islington Survivor of New Park House, 2018
Extract from Girls Not Allowed: A History of Bedminster Down Boys’ Club by Andy Lewis
