Record

EV ID	EV-0035
Title	Western Mail: “City wants common for play-field” — Leckwith Common inquiry (Mrs Mary Doreen Buckler)
Date of document	7 May 1958 (inquiry 6 May 1958)
Type	press
Evidence label	PRESS REPORT
Repository / reference	Western Mail, Wednesday 7 May 1958, p.7 (British Newspaper Archive). Related file: TNA BD 11/3775.
Status	PENDING — Page image: British Newspaper Archive subscription.
Provenance	BNA search-result OCR windows read by Tab’s research (cycle 8, finding F040); page image not seen.
Claims that rely on this	Press and Archive Leads — October 2026

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Quotation: “Mrs. Mary Doreen Buckler, of Great House Farm, Llandough, said she did not oppose the proposal so long as it applied only to playing fields. About 130 years ago Lord Bute allowed her family “a slice of land” which was now Leckwith Common.” (OCR)

Proves: Reported: at the 6 May 1958 inquiry into Cardiff’s Leckwith Common proposal, Mrs Mary Doreen Buckler of Great House Farm said her family had been allowed land, a right of way and grazing rights by Lord Bute.

Does not prove: It does not establish that any such right existed or was registered. Hansard (25 Nov 1958) records no petition against the order.