Press Articles Index — every newspaper cutting and press extract, one page each

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DOCUMENTED. This index lists every newspaper cutting, press extract and related published record held by the Wiki. Each item has its own evidence page with a unique catalogue number. Each page gives the evidence image (or says where it is held), a verbatim transcript, a neutral description, provenance with archive links, and a separate interpretation that is open to challenge. The earlier single page of transcripts, Press Archive — Newspaper Transcripts, remains as a reading copy and cross-check against the family’s research file.

Rule for citing the press

Any page on this site that relies on a newspaper item links to that item’s page below, not to the transcripts page. A press report is evidence of what a newspaper said at the time. It is not proof that every statement in it is true.

Full articles and cuttings

GHF-E090-N01 — November 1891 — “Llandough. Alleged Farmyard Theft” (Cardiff or Penarth newspaper, title not identified). Image on site.
GHF-E090-N02 — May 1897 — “Wireless Telegraphy. Marconi Invention Tested at Lavernock” (Cardiff newspaper, not identified). Context only. Image on site.
GHF-E090-N03 — 16 April 1974 — “‘Open day’ to save ancient Welsh house”, Daily Telegraph. Image on site.
GHF-E090-N04 — 19 November 1974 or 1977 — “Grievous loss”, letter in the Western Mail. Image on site.
GHF-E090-N05 — 17 April 1980 — “Historical Society had notable year”, Neath Guardian, p. 13. Context only. Image not yet on site.
GHF-E090-N06 — 18 March 1983 — “Burnt relics represented years of digs”, South Wales Echo. Context only. Image not yet on site.
GHF-E090-N07 — c. 30 April 1988 — “Chainsaw farmer vows to fight on”, by Andrew Penman. Image on site.
GHF-E090-N08 — 3 December 1988 — “History fight to save farm”, South Wales Echo. Image on site.
GHF-E090-N09 — 3 December 1988 — “Billy’s unhappy family”, South Wales Echo, p. 2. Image not yet on site.
GHF-E090-N10 — 6 December 1988 — “Farmer fails in final eviction hearing”, Western Mail. Image on site.
GHF-E090-N11 — c. 7 December 1988 — “Tears flow as 800 year-old farm house is razed at last” (newspaper not identified). Image on site.
GHF-E090-N12 — early 1989 — “Charge against evicted farmer dropped” (newspaper not identified). Image on site.
GHF-E090-N13 — 1989 — “From farm to a bus”, South Wales Echo. Partial copy. Image on site.
GHF-E090-N14 — c. 30 November 1988 — “Angry scenes as farmer evicted”, South Wales Echo front page. Headlines only. Image not yet on site.

Search-result extracts (sixteen, one page each)

GHF-E090-N15 — South Wales Echo extracts from the British Newspaper Archive search, 29 April 1988 to 24 March 1989: N15-01 to N15-16. See the N15 index page for the list with dates.

Related published record (not a newspaper)

GHF-E090-N16 — 22 May 1980 — House of Commons, Edward Rowlands MP on BP and Western Ground Rents (Hansard). Context only.

Where the originals can be checked

South Wales Echo, held by the British Newspaper Archive for 1983 to 2005 (Findmypast title page).
Findmypast list of Welsh newspaper titles, to check which other titles and years are held.
Welsh Newspapers Online (National Library of Wales), a free searchable archive, the first place to search for the 1891 and 1897 items.
Historic Hansard, 22 May 1980.

Not yet found

No cutting matching the Media Gallery placeholder “1988-06-12. Demolition” has been found. A further set of numbered photographs (1694 to 1706.jpg and others) attached to large outbound emails could not be retrieved and may include more cuttings. The Wiki also holds unresolved press references from the family’s research file (a Western Mail report of 16 November 1938, and 1978 and 1980s articles) on the Press Archive page.