Record

EV ID	EV-0280
Title	Llandough Lime Works and Llandough Quarry, 1876–1947: the contemporary record (Daniel Thomas’s obituary 1887; quarry labourer 1888; Kelly’s 1895 “Llandough Lime Works (D. Thomas & Son, proprietors)”; quarry fatality 1909; OS six-inch sheets revised 1915, 1938 and 1947)
Date of document	1876–1947 (items dated 15 Dec 1887; 24 Apr 1888; 1895; 12 and 22 May 1909; OS revisions 1915, 1938, 1947)
Type	press, directory and map set
Evidence label	PRESS, DIRECTORY AND MAP SET (public online copies); D153 catalogue only
Repository / reference	Tarian y Gweithiwr 15 Dec 1887 p.1 · South Wales Daily News 24 Apr 1888 p.3 · Kelly’s 1895 Part 1 p.392 · Cardiff Times 22 May 1909 p.9 · OS six-inch Glamorgan XLVII.NW: rev. 1915, rev. 1938, rev. 1947 (National Library of Scotland) · NLW Bute D153/4–8 (catalogue)
Status	HELD (public online copies, read 21 Oct 2026); D153/4–8 SOURCE PENDING
Provenance	Read by Tab’s research on 21 Oct 2026 while checking a research summary (work file sion-paste-20261021-0603-verify.md); catalogued in the decade sweep the same day.
Related evidence	EV-0006 (1877 Bute–Daniel Thomas agreement) · EV-0225 · EV-0278 (manor rentals)

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Quotation (verbatim): Tarian y Gweithiwr, 15 Dec 1887, p.1 (obituary of Daniel Thomas of Penylan): “Bu yn gontractor am flynyddoedd o dan Arglwydd Bute, ac yn berchenog ar odynau calch gwerthfawr yn Llandough.” (He was for years a contractor under Lord Bute, and owner of valuable lime kilns at Llandough.) South Wales Daily News, 24 Apr 1888, p.3: “William Birch, engaged as a labourer at Llandough Quarry”. Kelly’s 1895, Part 1, p.392, Llandough (Penarth): “Llandough Lime Works (D. Thomas & Son, proprietors)” and “Williams John, farmer”. Evening Express, 12 May 1909, p.3: “employed by Mr. William Turner, contractor, of Llandough, fell 35 feet whilst working at the quarry”. NLW Bute D153/4–8 catalogue: “land (33 a.), formerly part of Great House Farm, for the Llandough Limeworks (33 a.), 1876-1912”.

Fits with: Daniel Thomas held lime kilns at Llandough and worked under Bute, which fits the 1877 Bute–Daniel Thomas agreement (EV-0006). The 1915 OS shows “Llandough Lime Works” with an engine house and siding directly north-west of “Ty-mawr” and the church; the 1947 revision shows “Limekiln Cottage” and “Old Quarry”, so the works had stopped by 1947. The 1895 directory lists the lime works and “Williams John, farmer” side by side: the works and the farm were separate holdings by then.

Cuts against: No document seen dates the end of the works to 1928; the 1938 sheet still labels the works (OS labels lag). By 1909 the quarry employer was Turner, not Thomas, and which quarry the 1909 item means is not stated. D153 gives 33 acres; the 1877 account gives about 10 acres for the house parcel: the acreages differ.

Notes: OS sheets viewed, not downloaded. The 1927 obituary of Alfred Thomas (Lord Pontypridd) on cynonculture.co.uk (“in 1851 he [Daniel Thomas] started the lime-works at Llandough … carried on by his son, who gave it up”) is secondary and its original paper is unnamed: UNVERIFIED.

Further items (decade sweep, 21 Oct 2026): Evening Express, 31 May 1905, p.2: “The lime-kilns at Llandough is evidently a favourite night haunt for tramps, for the police are continually engaged in clearing them away” (WNO); Evening Express, 4 Jan 1905: five seamen “found sleeping in a lime kiln” at Llandough (WNO); Evening Express, 4 Dec 1906, p.3: an unknown man “found in an unconscious state near the Llandough Limekilns” died of the fumes (WNO); earlier, Evening Express, 18 Oct 1895, p.3: “three men … precipitated into a quarry” at Llandough Quarry (WNO). Warm kilns used as shelter point to working kilns in 1905–06.

Catalogued by Sion’s Tab agent, 21 Oct 2026, in the decade-by-decade gap sweep (free online sources only).

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