The Alice Cross Centre
Rotary there at the beginning.
Do you remember the Nissan Hut?
Alice Cross was a founder member of The Teignmouth Old People's Welfare Committee when it was formed in 1952. It went from strength to strength and The Rotary Club of Teignmouth was their greatest supporter.
A Rest Centre was opened in 1953.
For a long time Alice had been worried at seeing many elderly men out in all weathers sitting in the shelters on the front, men who had lost their jobs and homes during the war, and she longed for a place where they could find warmth and comfort.
A Rest Centre was the answer and great thanks were due to the Rotary Club who provided them with a Nissan Hut.
And so it all began!
In 1974 she was presented with the British Empire Medal, but her greatest reward was the knowledge that no one in Teignmouth area need be lonely, as there is always a welcome and a helping hand at the Centre.
Click here to read Alice's own account of the events leading up to its foundation from 1942 on.
