Somerton Park, South Australia

Somerton Park is a seaside suburb of Adelaide in South Australia.

The mainly residential suburb is home to the Somerton Park Beach, Sacred Heart College and North Brighton Cemetery.

Somerton Park Post Office opened on 1 July 1947 and closed in 1988.

[2] In 1921 the Seaforth Convalescent Home, a two-storey building surrounded by four acres of land situated not far from the beach (at 20 Tarlton Street[3]), was opened by the South Australian Government.

[7] During the 2004-2008 Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry (the Mullighan Inquiry), several women gave evidence about abuse at both Seaforth Convalescent Home and Seaforth Home, and a number of deaths were also investigated.