GHF-E090-N15-04 — South Wales Echo search extract, Wednesday 30 November 1988
Wiki catalogue reference: GHF-E090-N15-04 · Custodian / source URL: Buckler family evidence repository
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A screenshot of the British Newspaper Archive search result, one of the N15 image group: datro repository files …_002.png to …_006.png (pinned commit 2e514c59) and the Google Drive Screenshot_20250617-1721xx to 172337 series. The single image for this extract has not yet been matched, so none is displayed here. The Media Gallery lists a placeholder for this date (1988-11-30).
Catalogue UID: GHF-E090-N15-04 · Custodian/source copy: open source object. Preview and provenance status as at 10-10-2026.
Description
4. Provenance and where to check it
DOCUMENTED (search-result extract). Catalogue no. GHF-E090-N15-04, part of N15. This is a snippet, not the full article. Sections 1 to 4 record what the extract is and says. Section 5 is the Wiki’s reading and is open to challenge. Jump to: Evidence · Transcript · Description · Provenance · Interpretation.
- Publication and date: South Wales Echo, Wednesday 30 November 1988, as shown by the archive search.
- People named: Mrs Branwen Buckler; BP Properties Ltd.
- What is reported: people who “forced their way into” the farm already having half the roof off an outbuilding; Mrs Buckler’s fear that BP would flatten the farmhouse.
- Not visible: the headline, byline, and the text before and after the extract. The sentence after “and won the court” is cut off.
Held as part of the N15 image group. Transcribed on the Press Archive page (N15). The full page can be sought through the British Newspaper Archive, which holds this title for 1983 to 2005 (Findmypast title page for the South Wales Echo).
Transcription
Open transcription
2. Verbatim transcript
[…] who forced their way into the 400-year-old Great House Farm at Llandough near Cardiff have already half the roof off one of the outbuildings. But farmer’s wife Mrs Branwen Buckler, who fears BP Properties Ltd will now flatten the farmhouse, and won the court […]
Interpretation and wider context
RECONSTRUCTION. The extract dates the forced entry to 30 November 1988 and says demolition work had begun on an outbuilding the same day. That matches the family’s claim in N08 that bailiffs began demolition within hours. It is a contemporaneous report and supports the sequence on 1988: Possession and Demolition. It may be the text of the front page catalogued as N14, but the two have not been matched.
Related: N15 index · Press Articles Index · Media Gallery · Evidence Library.
Interpretive assessment date: 10-10-2026.