 The circumstances of her death were distorted to give the impression that she was an employee willing to die for the sake of her employer's family, rather than for children to whom she was closely related.In 1902 her name was added to the Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice and in 1936 a street near the scene of the fire was renamed Ayres Street in her honour.The case of Alice Ayres came to renewed public notice with the release of Patrick Marber's 1997 play "Closer", and the 2004 film based on it.