Great House Farm

The tour

Great House Farm (Tŷ Mawr) stood in Llandough, near Penarth. The farmhouse and its yard are being rebuilt in virtual reality from the family album, survey plans and archive records.

Guests will wear a VR headset and walk the house and yard with a guide who tells its story.

• Guided small groups
• VR headsets provided
• Dates, times and prices to be announced

Tickets are not on sale yet. Register your interest and you will hear first when booking opens.

The farmhouse, from the family album

Next door to history: Marconi, May 1897

In May 1897 Guglielmo Marconi and William Preece, engineer-in-chief of the Post Office, tested wireless telegraphy across the Bristol Channel at Lavernock Point, about 5 km south of Llandough.

Signals crossed open sea from Flat Holm island to Lavernock, and on 18 May from Lavernock to Brean Down in Somerset. A plaque at St Lawrence’s church, Lavernock, marks the trials.

The tour will tell this story beside the farm’s own.

Sources

• Evening Express, 15 May 1897, p. 4, “Wireless telegraphy: Marconi invention tested at Lavernock” (Welsh Newspapers Online)
• South Wales Echo, 27 May 1897, p. 4: the signed tape “Sent from Lavernock Point … received at Brean Down, May 18th, 1897” (Welsh Newspapers Online)
• Plaque, St Lawrence’s church, Lavernock: “Between Lavernock and Flat Holm 11th May, Lavernock and Brean Down 18th May 1897” (Read the Plaque)

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Photo credits: Great House Farm Part 1, nos. 096, 098, 101, 128, Williams–Buckler family album, Wayback Vault.