WELCOME TO THE
TALACRE COMMUNITY CENTRE
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Registered Charity Number 1075227
THE AGM MEETING ON THE 10th OF JANUARY
TO REACH THE COMMUNITY
CENTER COME OFF THE A548 ONTO STATION ROAD TALACRE TAKE THE FIRST TURNING ON THE LEFT GAMFA WEN, GO TO THE VERY BOTTOM AND WE ARE THE LAST BUILDING ON THE RIGHT. ANY ONE IS WELCOME TO COME ALONG AND JOIN US. THE PICTURE ABOVE IS THE NEW COMMUNITY CENTRE BUILT IN 2006. THE CHURCH BELOW IS TALACRE METHODIST CHURCH IT WAS THE OLD COMMUNITY CENTRE, IT WAS AT ONE TIME A PRISONER OF WAR HUT, AND WAS BROUGHT TO TALACRE AND USED AS A CHURCH. BUT AS NOW BEEN DEMOLISHED.
Venue Address: Gamfa Wen
Venue Postcode: CH8 9RT
Venue Phone:
Contact Name: Mr David Hemingway
Contact Phone: 07591179418
Email: dave.hemingway@outlook.com
Venue Description:
Main hall and use of kitchen £14 per hour.Meeting room and kitchen £7 per hour.
Main hall: 80 – 100 people. Meeting room: 18 – 20 people.
FREE WIFI
Venue Size:
Venue Capacity: 80+ chairs.12 large. tables 4 small tables.
Venue Charges:
Disabled Facilities:
Disabled toilets, access.
Parking:
2 disabled spaces at front. 2 disabled spaces at side of building 50+ at rear of building.
Availability:
All Mornings are available. Afternoons available are Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays. Tuesdays, Wednesdays. Thursdays. Evenings available are Tuesdays. Wednesday. Fridays. Saturdays and Sundays.
Equipment:
Kitchen, tea/coffee making, toilets.
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Talacre is a village in Flintshire
on the north coast of Wales
with large holiday caravan parks adjacent. It is near Point
of Ayr on the west side of the River
Dee estuary and has a sandy beach with dunes.
The hills of the Clwydian
Range behind the village form the eastern boundary of the Vale
of Clwyd. The name Talacre is a combination of the Welsh words tal,
meaning end, and acrau, meaning acres. In the north-east Welsh dialect,
acrau is pronounced as acre.The village is probably most popular for the lighthouse
on the nearby beach and the Talacre Beach Caravan Park, a short walk away
from the Presthaven Sands holiday park. The lighthouse has been noted for
numerous ghostly
sightings, people claiming to see a figure wearing old fashioned lighthouse
keeper clothes and standing in front of the glass dome of the abandoned
lighthouse.[1]
Talacre was used by the military during World War II, as an aircraft firing range. Fighters flew over the remote village every day, shooting at wooden targets in the dunes and at drogues towed by aircraft. It was also used for testing new devices, such as "window" the anti-radar foil that, on occasion, covered the whole village with silver. The village is often used as part of Paul O'Grady's comedy act, telling stories of how he spent many summers "Stuck in a four berth caravan in Talacre", and is therefore now part of popular culture as a famous "typically British" seaside holiday resort. Part of the beach where the lighthouse is situated has been shown briefly in a recent Dulux paint advert with the Old English Sheep Dog mascot.
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DESIGNED BY DAVE BENSON
LAST UPDATED 27.11.24
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