GHF-E090-N15-07 — South Wales Echo search extract, Tuesday 6 December 1988

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Wiki catalogue reference: GHF-E090-N15-07 · Custodian / source URL: Buckler family evidence repository

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Catalogue UID: GHF-E090-N15-07 · 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-N15-07, 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, Tuesday 6 December 1988, as shown by the archive search.
What is reported: a family battling for more than 30 years to prove ownership of the farmhouse; the fight ending “yesterday afternoon” in the High Court in Cardiff; BP Properties acting “within hours”.
Not visible: the headline, byline, the speaker (“her husband’s family” refers to Mrs Buckler), and the text before and after the extract.

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

[…] Her husband’s family have been battling for more than 30 years to prove they owned the historic farmhouse at Llandough. That fight came to an end yesterday afternoon in the High Court in Cardiff and within hours owners BP Properties […]

Interpretation and wider context

RECONSTRUCTION. The extract dates the decisive hearing to the afternoon of Monday 5 December 1988 and says BP Properties acted within hours. That is consistent with the Western Mail report of the hearing (N10) and with the demolition in the early hours of 6 December (N11). It names the High Court in Cardiff, where N10 says Cardiff Crown Court. The Wiki records the difference. It may be part of the Echo report headed “Bulldozed Before Breakfast” that a reader’s letter cites (N15-12), but that is not established. ^🕒

Interpretive assessment date: 10-10-2026.