Alice Turner decides to sell Milnsbridge restaurant China Rose after 16 years to enjoy her retirement
Sep 6 2010 Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Alice Turner decides to sell Milnsbridge restaurant China Rose after 16 years to enjoy her retirement
AT 71 you could forgive Alice Turner the chance to put her feet up.
For the past 16 years she has run the Milnsbridge restaurant China Rose with just one holiday in all that time.
Now she is selling the eaterie and hoping to enjoy her retirement.
For Alice, she will be sorry to say goodbye to the restaurant she has built up.
She said she’s grown to know many of her customers well over the past 16 years, but she said it was time to call it a day.
The Manchester Road restaurant, which sits in an acre of ground, is now on the market for £425,000.
It sits in grounds which she has helped transform from a ‘jungle’ into a garden which bloom with the four seasons.
Alice said: “The business will still be open until I sell it or someone takes over.
“I am 71-years-old now and it’s time to retire.
“I had a flu jab last year and became deaf in one ear and I had a fall a few years ago, so it’s time really.
“I might have carried on working if I was in an office, but a restaurant is so busy.
“I’m looking forward to putting my feet up.
“I will miss my customers though, a lot of them have come back many times since I’ve been here.”
Sixteen years ago Alice took over the former rectory and opened it as a Chinese restaurant.
At the time, the acre of ground it came with was overgrown.
She explained: “It was a jungle when I first came here, but I am particularly proud of the garden now.
“I cleared it all away and put lots of plants in there, there are different flowers all four seasons.”
