GHF-E090-N15-09 — South Wales Echo search extract, Friday 9 December 1988

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Wiki catalogue reference: GHF-E090-N15-09 · 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.

Catalogue UID: GHF-E090-N15-09 · 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-N15-09, 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, Friday 9 December 1988, as shown by the archive search.
What is reported: a bid to stop BP Properties profiting from the demolition “earlier this week”; a small group of Llandough villagers meeting local councillors “last night” to express anger.
Not visible: the headline, byline, names, 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

The word in square brackets was supplied in the Wiki’s earlier transcription where the screenshot was cut off.

[…] a bid to stop BP Properties profiting from the demolition earlier this week [of] an 800-year-old farmhouse on the outskirts of Cardiff. A small group of Llan-dough villagers met local councillors last night to express their anger at the way BP had demolished […]

Interpretation and wider context

RECONSTRUCTION. The extract dates the demolition to “earlier this week” of 9 December 1988, consistent with 6 December. It records a local reaction: a village meeting with councillors and a proposal to stop BP profiting from the demolition. The extract does not say what steps were proposed or whether any were taken. It is relevant to the Restoration Campaign only as evidence of contemporary local feeling.

Interpretive assessment date: 10-10-2026.