The National Archives — Forensic Institutional Review

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Chronology and catalogue links — assessed 10-10-2026: Use the Institutional Involvement Roadmap (1877–2026) for the date-ordered institution/people/evidence sequence. The reported 1988 Cadw-to-Minister spot-listing letter has its own catalogue placeholder at GHF-E152; the original has not been attached to that page as at 10-10-2026. A placeholder records an evidence gap; it does not establish the letter’s contents or misconduct.

Forensic Institutional Review — The National Archives

Scope: TNA as archival discovery/custody authority for transferred government and corporate records.

Role

TNA is relevant where government or historical corporate records may have been transferred from departments or deposited collections. It is not a title adjudicator.

Forensic control test

Identify the exact collection/classmark, transfer status, closure/restriction and catalogue provenance. Where a public-record route is exhausted, ask whether an earlier transfer or departmental retention record exists rather than treating catalogue absence as destruction.

Current finding

As at 10-10-2026, the material reviewed does not establish wrongdoing by The National Archives. This is not a finding that the archive had no involvement; its particular custody and search functions are addressed here.

Human action

Run targeted searches for Wales Office/Welsh Office, land-registry/leasehold and relevant corporate records, recording classmarks and transfer/disposal information. Where an expected record remains with a department, identify the department and preservation route.

Acceptance: each TNA search produces classmarks/copies or a documented negative-search outcome with custody explanation.

Institutional appearance timeline — linked source index

Coverage rule: this is a chronological navigation map of published Wiki source pages found by searching the current site index for “The National Archives”. Every event label links directly to the page containing the source. It avoids duplicating source narratives. It records mention/appearance, not culpability. Dates are transcribed from page titles where available; “Date not explicit in title” means the linked source must be consulted. Search indexing is a discovery aid, not proof of exhaustive external coverage. ^{🕒10-10-2026}

Date shown by source title	Event / source — open evidence	Record class
1877	GHF-E115 — 1877 Bute–Thomas agreement (sale or quarry lease of the house parcel)	Published Wiki evidence page
1877	GHF-E117 — Bute X.6(12): 1877 trustees’ abstract of receipts and payments	Published Wiki evidence page
1955	GHF-E125 — 1955 High Court Order 14 possession order against Frederick Buckler, with claim, affidavits and any plan	Published Wiki evidence page
10 July 1986	GHF-E140 — High Court trial of 10 July 1986: pleadings, evidence and judgment	Published Wiki evidence page
1987	GHF-E142 — 1987 House of Lords petition for leave to appeal: papers	Published Wiki evidence page
12 May 1988	GHF-E090-N15-03 — Thursday 12 May 1988: South Wales Echo (British Newspaper Archive extract)	Published Wiki evidence page
29 September 2026	GHF-E106-R01 — Royal Commission (RCAHMW) reply RC26-0375, 29 September 2026	Records-access response
9 October 2026	GHF-E106-R51 — NPCC FOI 3065/2026 search-disclosure response (9 October 2026)	Published Wiki evidence page
Date not explicit in title	Evidence Library	Published Wiki evidence page
Date not explicit in title	Press Archive — Newspaper Transcripts	Published Wiki evidence page

Records-access register appearances — direct row links

Rows below match the institution’s name or an alias in the reply register. A match establishes an appearance in the records trail, not necessarily a substantive act by the institution.

Date	Correspondence / register item (click to open)	Reading rule
26 Feb 2026	R34 — The National Archives (Manorial Documents Register). “Manor of Llandough – MDR entries”.	Name/alias match in the reply register; open the row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental reference.
23 Sep 2026	R15 — The National Archives FOI Centre. CAS-347296-M0V4Y1 / CRM:007302479.	Name/alias match in the reply register; open the row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental reference.
1 Oct 2026	R05 — The National Archives FOI Centre. CAS-347296-M0V4Y1 . Also a WhatDoTheyKnow notice of 1 October that the response was late.	Name/alias match in the reply register; open the row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental reference.