seaJane Posted 22 April , 2020 Share Posted 22 April , 2020 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/talbot-house-the-tommies-sober-refuge-is-finally-facing-defeat-vpnrf9rr8?shareToken=ed7902f01c83fa1f64b9248872b7d32c (seems to be no paywall) https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-talbot-house sJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulkheader Posted 22 April , 2020 Share Posted 22 April , 2020 There is already a thread on this subject, but cant find it at the moment. Anyone who can, please donate (yes, I have, in case you are wonderin). T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 22 April , 2020 Share Posted 22 April , 2020 Never been there but know it's history. I have sent a noggin or two... Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithmroberts Posted 22 April , 2020 Share Posted 22 April , 2020 I placed on in the section on Charity Appeals. keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 22 April , 2020 Author Share Posted 22 April , 2020 Apologies Keith, I never thought of looking there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithmroberts Posted 23 April , 2020 Share Posted 23 April , 2020 (edited) 18 hours ago, seaJane said: Apologies Keith, I never thought of looking there. No need Jane, this will have been seen by additional members who don't look through new topics each day, and the reminder will help others. I appreciate that so many worthwhile enterprises including museums are going to be in serious trouble, but Talbot House will always be a special place for many of us. Edited 23 April , 2020 by keithmroberts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 23 April , 2020 Share Posted 23 April , 2020 A worthy cause… I visit at least once a year, when friends of ours are wardens. Let's hope they can raise the sum they need. M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianjonesncl Posted 23 April , 2020 Share Posted 23 April , 2020 Doing ok... €56,748 raised of €100,000 target Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 23 April , 2020 Share Posted 23 April , 2020 (edited) 16 hours ago, Bernard_Lewis said: Never been there but know it's history. I have sent a noggin or two... Bernard Ditto & Ditto I wonder if either of my grandfathers ever visited? I shall never know now [but we did have a master at school who had a spell working with Toc H] Good luck to them and one never knows; I might get to visit one day Michael Edited 23 April , 2020 by michaeldr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scorer Posted 23 April , 2020 Share Posted 23 April , 2020 It's a great place, and I've been pleased to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullerTurner Posted 23 April , 2020 Share Posted 23 April , 2020 On 22/04/2020 at 20:02, Bernard_Lewis said: Never been there but know it's history. I have sent a noggin or two... Bernard It is so much more than mere “history”, it’s one of the most spiritual places I’ve ever been...and, yes! I’ve contributed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 23 April , 2020 Share Posted 23 April , 2020 14 minutes ago, BullerTurner said: It is so much more than mere “history”, it’s one of the most spiritual places I’ve ever been...and, yes! I’ve contributed. Spot on. I am a Talbotonian paying an annual fee and have sent a small donation in addition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullerTurner Posted 23 April , 2020 Share Posted 23 April , 2020 From Henry Williamson’s Love and the Loveless: ”They stopped outside a tall grey house, on the door of which was a notice, All rank abandon ye who enter here. Inside on the wall was a painted hand pointing to the door . . . They went up a wooden stairway, and then up another flight, and so along a bare wooden corridor . . . up some steep open treads, and so into a large loft with beams and posts holding up the roof. Phillip saw it was a chapel. From the king-post was suspended a chandelier with a ring of candles. Beyond, against one wall, was a red altar cloth, with green borders. Another red cloth, with gilt tassels, hung from a beam above the altar. The space before the altar was flanked by two massive candles on wooden stands. Beside each was a bowl of flowers. A carpet covered the centre of the floor. There were a few plain wooden chairs and benches, and two shrines, one on either side of the altar, below semi-circular windows. There was a lectern painted white. . . . The air shivered with deeper undertones of heavy howitzers, pounding away in the Salient. Then the sun came out behind a cloud and light shone whiter through the semi-circular windows, Here men had clumped up the steep and narrow stair, borne up by Hope, seeking solace at the verge of unutterable Darkness. . . .” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 23 April , 2020 Share Posted 23 April , 2020 My biography of Henry Coombe-Tennant of Cadoxton, Neath will be published in 2021 by Y Lolfa, a Wales-based publisher. Though I've never visited Talbot House, I feel an affinity as Henry certainly visited it. He served in the Second World War and knew Tubby Clayton. Indeed, Tubby read the lesson at Henry's mum's memorial service in 1956. And Henry's older brother, Christopher (Tennant - the Coombe was added to the family name after his death) was KIA in 1917 while serving with the Welsh Guards, the same regiment that Henry joined in the 1930s. And served with some distinction - MC, and SOE agent. Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Davies Posted 26 April , 2020 Share Posted 26 April , 2020 Is anyone else listening to Simon's talk this evening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zijde26 Posted 19 May , 2020 Share Posted 19 May , 2020 The Belgian newspaper " De Standaard " pays today an article on this topic and says that " Talbot House " is reopening today its doors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 19 May , 2020 Author Share Posted 19 May , 2020 Good to hear. I hope everybody takes care and stays safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassenach Posted 19 May , 2020 Share Posted 19 May , 2020 Excellent news. Makes me want to get back over to Flanders even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianjonesncl Posted 19 May , 2020 Share Posted 19 May , 2020 Only 4,000 EUR to go for the target of 100,000 EUR to be achieved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 22 May , 2020 Share Posted 22 May , 2020 (edited) Just received this update https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-talbot-house?viewupdates=1&rcid=r01-159015018178-e307f6be0b4c4da3&utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_email%2B1137-update-supporters-v5b Edited 22 May , 2020 by michaeldr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithmroberts Posted 22 May , 2020 Share Posted 22 May , 2020 Excellent news. well done all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 22 May , 2020 Author Share Posted 22 May , 2020 Good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianjonesncl Posted 22 May , 2020 Share Posted 22 May , 2020 €114,582 raised of €100,000 target - Excellent news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 23 May , 2020 Share Posted 23 May , 2020 NB: The fund is staying open for further donations until 11th December Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zijde26 Posted 28 May , 2020 Share Posted 28 May , 2020 Some money has been collected by the Scottish veteran George Sutherland, 98 years. He has been making a “ sponsor-walk “ from the Lyssenthoek Military Cemetery up until Talbot House. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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