When Alec finally returned home, he took up residence in the old ‘barrack block’ before moving to 9 Grange Road, where he would stay with Tom Angliss and his parents for six years. While working for the Ministry of Labour, he remained deeply involved in the local area and devoted his leisure time to his old interests. He found that Bermondsey, along with the rest of the post-war world, was much changed. For the first time the word ‘Mission’ had an old-fashioned Victorian ring, denoting an age of noblesse oblige. This would no longer do. Equality had always been integral to ‘the Doctor’s’ dream and could be better expressed by another slight change of name. The Oxford and Bermondsey Mission became the Oxford and Bermondsey Club.

As the ‘Bermondsey boys’ were demobilised and came home there was a move for a new and enlarged club, composed of them but reinforced each autumn by drafts of eighteen-year-olds from junior clubs. Men and boys ‘cemented together by memories of club-camps and campaigns abroad will grow up to make their mark in local history’; so it was expected, so it was hoped.