EV-0106 — Press cutting: “Tears flow as 800 year-old farm house is razed at last”
| EV ID | EV-0106 |
|---|---|
| Title | Press cutting: “Tears flow as 800 year-old farm house is razed at last” |
| Date of document | c. 7 December 1988 |
| Type | press |
| Evidence label | PRESS REPORT |
| Repository / reference | Buckler family evidence repository: file 2026-02-07_consortium-formal_notice_bpvsbuckler__en_v0-0-1_002.jpeg (datro repository, pinned commit 2e514c59); Second copy Google Drive file 1185106_10201435169861268…jpg; Catalogue placeholder GHF-E027-08. |
| Status | PUBLISHED — open the scan (image) |
| Provenance | Family-held newspaper cutting imaged in Buckler family evidence repository, second copy in Google Drive, transcribed on Press Archive page N11; Newspaper and date unidentified. |
| Wiki catalogue page | GHF-E090-N11 |
| Claims that rely on this | Court of Appeal — Forensic Assessment, Event Nomenclature Register — 1988 Great House Farm removal, seizure and occupat, High Court — Forensic Assessment, House of Lords — Forensic Assessment, Media Gallery, Press Archive — Newspaper Transcripts, Press Articles Index — every newspaper cutting and press extract, one page each, GHF-E090-N08 — “History fight to save farm” (South Wales Echo, 3 December 1988) |
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Quotation: “The twenty-strong team moved in with bulldozers just after 4am and by breakfast time there was not a building left standing on the ten-acre site which overlooks Cardiff Bay.”
Proves: Shows an unidentified newspaper reporting demolition of Great House Farm by a bulldozer team hours after possession was granted to BP Properties Ltd, witnessed by the Buckler family.
Does not prove: Press report does not prove the statements’ truth or title; Newspaper, date, and court are unconfirmed; Cited historical figures are unconfirmed and conflict with other reports.
File stored in the wayback archive: EV-0106 in the artifact index.
Interpretation: working hypotheses
Working hypotheses, kept apart from the record above. The record text on this page is unchanged. None of these is a finding: each line is labelled as inference, theory, a reading that cuts against the case, or a discarded theory, and names the evidence it rests on and what would confirm or refute it, so the reader can test it. Updated 25 Oct 2026 (v2: ingredients wording).
Demolition, archaeology and the green
THEORY · H-02Ground R7: the 1988 demolition, the missing 1988 Cadw file and the official answers that files "would have been destroyed". Working hypothesis: these raise questions about how the listing request was handled. Cuts against as a reopening ground: the events came after the 31 Jul 1987 judgment, so they cannot have caused it.
Rests on: EV-0081 · EV-0094 · EV-0095 · EV-0096 · EV-0106 (this page) · EV-0118 · ground R7; research log E122
Would be confirmed by: The Welsh Office / Cadw 1988 file or its destruction record.
Would be refuted by: A documented routine destruction schedule covering the file.
Status: Open (ground R7, scores a1 b0 c2 d0)
Catalogue record
| EV ID | EV-0106 |
|---|---|
| Source | Press cutting (paper not shown on the copy) |
| Date | Not shown on the copy; text refers to “early yesterday” (register: c. 7 December 1988) |
| Publisher | Not shown on the copy |
| Reference | Headline: “Tears flow as 800 year-old farm house is razed at last” |
| Duplicate | Duplicate check, 27 October 2026: a further copy of this item was received and is filed under this record. No new ID was issued. |
Transcript
Transcription note: A full transcript of this cutting, with the names of private individuals replaced by [family member] or [resident], is in preparation and will be added here. The cutting names private individuals, so the image and full text are not reproduced on this page. Short dated quotations from the paper appear above.
Destination
- Where the original is held: The newspaper’s archive (paper and date to be confirmed). Cutting held by the family.
- On this site: this artifact page; cited from the 1988: Possession and Demolition page.
Interpretation
A report of the demolition “early yesterday” by a twenty-strong team with bulldozers shortly after 4 a.m., the day after possession was granted, ending a battle the paper put at 35 years. The demolition date it implies can be read against the two RCAHMW records, EV-0629 and EV-0631.
Cited on
23 pages link here.
- EV-0081 — Cadw letter to the responsible Minister concerning spot-listing of Great House Farm (awaited original)
- EV-0094 — Cadw barn survey photograph, 1988 (disclosed 11 June 2026)
- EV-0095 — Cadw farmhouse survey photograph, 29 July 1988 (disclosed 11 June 2026)
- EV-0096 — Cadw inspection photographs, 29 July 1988, and December 1988 listing decision record
- EV-0118 — Sites and Monuments Record card PRN 02038s: “building destroyed by owners”
- EV-0268 — Cadw 13428, Lower Farmhouse, Rhoose: an early-19th-century Vale farmhouse listed on 12 October 1988 (“Interior not available at resurvey”), a comparator for the 1988 Llandough resurvey
- EV-0271 — TNA BD 34/114 (1988) and BD 34/119, /121, /123 (1989): Historic Buildings Council for Wales agenda, minutes and papers (catalogue entries)
- Evidence Register
- Wayback artifact index
- 1000 Cuts · a dated chronology of the Williams family at Great House Farm, 1870s–1988
- 1000 Cuts: a dated chronology of the Williams family at Great House Farm (1870s–1988) — Great House Farm Wiki
- 1988: Possession and Demolition
- Damages, Losses & Costs Quantification
- El caso de la familia · Argentina
- GHF-E090-N11 — “Tears flow as 800 year-old farm house is razed at last” (c. 7 December 1988)
- GHF-E106-R37-A2 — Cadw farmhouse survey photograph dated 29 July 1988, disclosed 11 June 2026
- GHF-E106-R37-A3 — Cadw barn survey photograph dated 29 July 1988, disclosed 11 June 2026
- GHF-E144 — 29 July 1988 Cadw inspection photographs and the 5 December 1988 listing decision record
- GHF-E152 — Cadw letter to the Minister concerning spot-listing, 1988 (awaited original)
- Great House Farm Wiki
- Title chain · Tŷ Mawr
- Title chain · Tŷ Mawr
- Title chain · Tŷ Mawr