Catalogue description STAMFORD HOUSE REMAND HOME, SHEPHERD'S BUSH: general

In 1933 the Council, with the approval of the Home Office agreed that the former offices of the Hammersmith Board of Guardians and the children's receiving home (known as Stamford House) at 206A Goldhawk Road, Shepherd's Bush, W.12, should be adapted for use as a remand home in place of Ponton Road Remand Home (q.v.). It was opened in 1935 and until February 1941 served as a mixed remand home for both girls and boys. In 1941 a clinic for delinquent girls and a remand home for girls and young boys was opened in part of Shirley Residential School. All girls were removed from Stamford House at this time. In 1944 the girls on remand were removed from Shirley and sent to the Isolation Hospital at Cheshunt, and later in the same year to Marlesford Lodge, 241 King Street, Hammersmith, W.6, which had previously been used as a home for mentally deficient girls. In 1948 they returned to Stamford House which once again became a mixed home until May, 1950, whereafter it was used exclusively for boys.

Irenmar Lodge, Trenmar Gardens, College Park, N.W.10 was between 1937 and 1939, used as a Branch Remand Home for Stamford House and was managed by the same Managing Committee. It was not re-opened after its war. [For earlier records of Trenmar Lodge, see Paddington Board of Guardians series]