EV-0048 — Daily Telegraph report: ‘Open day’ to save ancient Welsh house (Ty Mawr, Llandough)

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EV IDEV-0048
TitleDaily Telegraph report: ‘Open day’ to save ancient Welsh house (Ty Mawr, Llandough)
Date of document16 April 1974
Typepress
Evidence labelPRESS REPORT
Repository / referenceBuckler family evidence repository; Images Drive 1546141_10201438100374529…jpg; Repository 2026-02-16_consortium-newspaper, 2026-02-04_consortium-evidence_002; Scrapbook page bears RCAHMW NMR stamp (compare NMR 6048944)
StatusPUBLISHED — open the scan (image)
ProvenanceFamily-held cutting annotated “D. Telegraph 16 April 74”; Survives as cutting image and scrapbook page pasted beside William Rees’s letter (GHF-E090-N04); Scrapbook page bears RCAHMW NMR stamp; Previously catalogued GHF-E090-A67, misdated 19 November 1977
Wiki catalogue pageGHF-E090-N03
Claims that rely on thisCardiff County Court — Forensic Assessment, Court of Appeal — Forensic Assessment, ITV Cymru Wales (formerly HTV Wales) — Forensic Assessment, Media Gallery, National Library of Wales — Forensic Assessment, Press Archive — Newspaper Transcripts, Press Articles Index — every newspaper cutting and press extract, one page each, RCAHMW — Forensic Assessment, Research Leads from the bpvsbuckler Archive, The 1974 Licence Letters, The Restoration Campaign, GHF-E090-N04 — 19 November 197?: “Grievous loss” (Western Mail, letter from Will
EV-0048 — Daily Telegraph report: 'Open day' to save ancient Welsh house (Ty Mawr, Llandough)

Quotation: “The ownership of the house has been in dispute for 25 years but my family has lived here for more than 400 years and my solicitors tell me I have a valid claim to it.”

Proves: A national newspaper reported that on 15 April 1974 Mrs Mary (Nancy) Williams, formerly Buckler, held a public open day at Ty Mawr against planned demolition, publicly asserting a claim to ownership over two months before pleading ownership in court on 3 July 1974.

Does not prove: Does not prove her ownership claim was valid; The 800-year age, 12 monks, c.1870 armour find, and acquisition in about 1667 are reported tradition or her own account, not established fact. End of cutting lost.

File stored in the wayback archive: EV-0048 in the artifact index.

Interpretation: working hypotheses

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Demolition, archaeology and the green

DISCARDED THEORY · H-05DISCARDED: the theory that the "1978 article" was an ownership assertion made after the licence letters. Reason: it is the Daily Telegraph of 16 Apr 1974, before the letters; the companion letter is the Western Mail of 19 Nov 1974.

Rests on: EV-0048 (this page) · EV-0051 · research log E04

Would be confirmed by: Would be revived by a dated 1978 item.

Would be refuted by: Refuted by the handwritten date and archive stamp.

Status: Discarded

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