Mr Beaumont – a former Grand-Slam winning England captain – dropped in to meet the children and staff who have found a temporary home in the stadium’s Carling Suite following an electrical fire at their setting.
The spacious Carling Suite – which is 450 square metres – is now home to up to 60 children a day and 18 staff from Twickenham Park Day Nursery.
Following the fire on Saturday 14 May, the nursery was forced to ring round church halls and conference centres looking for emergency accommodation.
Nursery manager Guy Mitchell said, ‘The fire was in the kitchen and caused by a power surge from the mains supply in the street. Obviously it was very upsetting, the last thing you want is to be woken up and told the nursery is surrounded by fire engines.
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