A short, single stage multi. The final cache can be found within ¼ mile from the given co-ordinates.
You will need to visit the posted co-ordinates to find the following information from the brown church notice board to calculate the final co-ords.
This very modest Christian church has a fascinating history; funded by a community on a tight budget and built with the help of many local tradesmen ..
Using the brown information sign outside the church to the left of the door (as you look at it)..
a.bc Communion
de.00 Sunday Alive
f.00 Evening service
The cache can be found at N51 32.d(a-e)c W003 23.(f-b)ea
Depending on what time you visit, this can be a very high muggle area so please employ your best ninja stealth moves and replace as found.
History of Ebenezer Church Talbot Green
Ted Dickeson was 23 when he started working on a block of flats in Boscombe. He found lodgings with a lady from Wales, who was visited by a young lady named Mary from Brynsadler. She was a Christian and Ted’s Christian experience was nil - apart from being baptised in a church as an infant. His 'church' was the public house as his parents were publicans.
They became friends, yet when things began to get serious, she pointed out that he would not go to church with her, and she would not join him in a public house, their ways were too different and they would have to separate and go their different ways.
Soon after, Ted met a young Christian named Tom Shurmer who pointed him to Christ. He was baptised in Boscombe, and later returned to London. Mary returned to Wales following the death of her father.
During the War, whilst on ARP duty, Ted was rushed to hospital with appendicitis. When he was discharged on Christmas day Mary suggested he go to her home in Wales for convalescence - so he did, and never went back again. They married in Llantrisant in 1942, and had 4 children.
After the war, the council began to build prefabs and houses around Talbot Green and Llantrisant. As the nearest church was a long way away, Ted started to look for a place to hold a Sunday School. The only place available was the nissen which was used by the local athletic club where he was granted use of the hut on a Sunday, and on the first Sunday morning they had 67 children.. and numbers grew until they reached about 100 children of all ages.
In the 1950s, Mr Williams, who owned the Llantrisant Motors, offered to sell a piece of land for £156 but told them they would have to get permission to build a church from the Llantrisant Council. The plan was submitted and permission was refused. Mr Isaac, the deputy surveyor offered to draw more plans at no charge, which were resubmitted and passed. The money for the land came in very small donations of five or ten shillings from local people and children collected ship half pennies until enough money was collected.
Now, they owned a plot of land, the plans had been passed, but no money to finance the build.
A cry for help went out and a local builder, Bob Edwards, kindly marked out the site and some of the boys from the Sunday School helped to dig the trenches for the footings. Bob Edwards set out the corners and although Ted had never laid a brick in his life, he brought the building up to damp course level on his own. When the building reached window-sill height, he got a little local help with the bricklaying and putting in window frames.
The work for the roof timbers was beyond Ted, so they employed local tradesmen to help complete the work, some without pay in return for being able to live on site until completion. The shell was up - now for the inside.
Ted did the plumbing as this was his trade. The wooden floor came from an old dance floor in Llandaff. They were still getting small gifts towards the work and so far they were out of debt. Luckily the council had started to build houses next to the church so they waited until they were built and then joined on to the main sewer which was at the back of the church which saved a great deal of money.
By now about two and a half years had gone by, and the church was coming on fine. They rebuilt a pulpit, which came from an old Welsh chapel. The communion table was a gift from Princess Street Mission, Barry, some of the chairs come from Plassey Street, Penarth, and a lot of pews were from a disused chapel in the Rhondda Valley.
On December 6th 1958 the doors were opened. There were so many people attending, they couldn't get all the people in that day. The building remained the same until April 1991 when it the building was extended.
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Parking available at the Shopping Park (currently limited to 4 hours). Alternative unrestricted free parking available at the Recreation Ground, along the roadside in Ely Valley Road, or on the Penygawsi side of the subway in Chartist Road.
Parking note: I advise you NOT to use the small, surface car park by the Bus Station as there is a strict 30 minute wait period controlled by ANPR cameras.