Record

EV ID	EV-0286
Title	Western Mail, 17 November 1942, p.2, auction advertisement: “IMPORTANT SALE OF LIVE AND DEAD FARMING STOCK. GREAT HOUSE FARM, LLANDOUGH” (search snippet only; parish not stated in the snippet)
Date of document	17 November 1942
Type	newspaper advertisement (search snippet)
Evidence label	SNIPPET ONLY (British Newspaper Archive free search; page not read)
Repository / reference	British Newspaper Archive, free search results: Western Mail, 17 Nov 1942, p.2 (search “great house farm” llandough, 1940–1949)
Status	SOURCE PENDING (snippet read 21 Oct 2026; advertisement not read)
Provenance	Free BNA search, decade sweep, 21 Oct 2026.
Related evidence	EV-0241 (National Farm Survey 1941–43, Penarth parish) · EV-0285 (Western Mail 1925–39 snippets) · 1944 War Agricultural Executive Committee item on the Master Timeline

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Quotation (verbatim): “IMPORTANT SALE OF LIVE AND DEAD FARMING STOCK. GREAT HOUSE FARM, LLANDOUGH.” (OCR, slips corrected)

Fits with: A wartime sale of the farm’s stock in November 1942 would fit the record that the War Agricultural Executive Committee was dissatisfied with the farm by 1944 and that Frederick Buckler then ran it as manager for John Williams. If this is the Penarth farm, the advertisement should name the auctioneer, the vendor and the reason for the sale.

Cuts against: Which Llandough is NOT VERIFIED: a second Great House Farm at Llandough near Cowbridge also advertised stock sales (1927). The snippet names no vendor.

Notes: Next step (free): read the full page through a library BNA or Welsh Newspapers terminal; the advertisement text decides the parish.

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

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