Bryn Alyn, Some Missing Pieces, Updated Nov 2013

Kenneth Whites' and David Russell Evans.

facts:

• 70's - Bryn Alyn Community established, with ken white sr as financial and david evans as secretarty
• 70's - dr kedney and dr roberts are attached to the Community from their local practise in wrexham (just round corner from trevor street)
• 80's - ken white and david evans accused of physical and indecent assault respectively. both take non-residential care positions to avoid investigation. - fact as stated by Waterhouse.
• 80's - lynn williams accused of sexual impropriety with a resident of another children's home. 
• 80's / 90's - stephen elliot and ken white jr make directors.
• 90's - police investigation starts in june 91
• 90's - medical records start to vanish for residents
• 90-91 - lynn williams pressures 4 girls at Gatewen Hall to have abortions and fails with 5th girl, before mutually agreed resignation.
• 91 - paul eccles replaced lynn williams as deputy of gatewen hall
• 91 - paul eccles spends several months actively pursuing, with the aid of Wrexham Social Services, the removal of newborn child from the 5th girl, leading to verbal complaint to Social Services in Wrexham for unfounded harassment of a new, young mother. by October '91 Social Services dropped the case.
• 91 - ken white replaced paul eccles as deputy of gatewen hall - back to residential care!
• 95 - John Allen signs over Co. and shares and BA to ken white sr for money, car, house and villa
• 95 - kedney keeps the yatch
• 95 - pentre saeson reverts to ken white sr in lieu of pension
• 96 - pentre saeson became prospects for young people - mentally ill children 8-21 -under stephen elliot (after bersham hall) cant find bill of sale for pentre saeson.
• 97 - Bryn Alyn Hall finally closed
• 97 - ken white junior inherited the lot when ken white senior died.
• 97 - prospects opened a home in chester run by ken white jr
• 97 - oasis care ltd is set up by david evans and ken white - social work with residential. mentally disabled 8-21 yr old, and elderly.
• 98 - ken white and david evans open a nursery on BA land
• 2012 - nursery closes.

ken white lives, with his wife, in bryn alyn hall, which is registered as an Hotel under Alyn Lodge ltd - hotels and other accomodation.

there are a total of 9 companies registered at alyn lodge, ponte y capel lane, gresford, as well as several more offsite.

david evans is a registered director of 14 actively trading companies at thee moment, half of which are registered at the Hall

ken white jr is a director of 8 companies - 7 trading at the moment. all registered at the Hall

Bryn Alyn Hall 25th November 2012 ©Snifferdog Publishing

circumstance? or dodgy?

prospects school which is in pentre saeson offers mechanics on the curriculem - david evans owns legacy service station (rhos) ltd - maintenance and repair of motor vehicles.
they also offer horse riding - ken white has 10 - 15 horses on the 50 acres attached to bryn alyn.

dodgy as hell!

prospects house the children across wrexham in 10 houses, a total of 27 beds.
so thats 2-3 kids per house. that to me sounds like unvetted foster parents.

See North Wales Abuse Uncovered for the Waterhouse Inquiry

I went back to Bryn Alyn Hall on Saturday 20th April and saw a single storey building in the process of being renovated.

 ©Jo

 ©Jo

My recollection of this building is that it contained the woodwork room and another couple of classrooms.
As we walked around the outside of the building, I could see paperwork in the windows, both loose sheets and files/folders.

 ©Jo

The building looked as though it had been out of use since Bryn Alyn shut in 1997.
As we walked further across the driveway and round towards what is signposted as "Alyn Lodge" I noticed a distinct lack of horse.
What had been 10-15 horses in November was down to a meager 2, despite the warm weather.
Further round towards the footpath down to Wilderness, I noticed a lot of fencing was being replaced and a huge bonfire had been built, burned and was again in construction, as wheelbarrows of rubble and paperwork from the building were being dragged across the drainage ditches.

 ©Jo

Update 16th November 2013: 
Following a visit to Bryn Alyn by another victim, there are no longer any horses on the property.
Kenneth J White has altered his residential address and is no longer registered as living in Bryn Alyn Hall. Instead he is registered at:

Siloh Cottage Pentredwr
Llangollen
Denbighshire
United Kingdom
LL20 8DG

address curtesy of http://companycheck.co.uk/director/902331725/MR-KENNETH-JOHN-WHITE

I will also point out here that at no time is Paul Eccles mentioned in Waterhouse in relation to the operation of a Children's Home, despite other Heads and Deputies being mentioned throughout.
Nor does Waterhouse include most of the people interviewed by HTV for the Wales This Week documentary