South side of the Black Lion pub, Llandaff, Cardiff
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South side of the Black Lion pub, Llandaff, Cardiff
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 12 Sep 2017
The Cardiff Road side of the pub on the corner of High Street. The Llandaff City website states that the pub is so named because a black lion appears as part of the heraldic shield of the Mathew family of Llandaff. Three of their family tombs are in Llandaff Cathedral and other members have wall memorials there. For part of the 19th century the pub was known as The Romilly, after Sir Samuel Romilly MP, the Solicitor General and a leading antislavery campaigner, acquired the Manor of Llandaff from the Mathew family in 1817. His family sold the Manor to W S Cartwright in 1852 whereupon the pub name reverted to the Black Lion. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5534398 to the name sign on the left.
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Image Location
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51.493426
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-3.219422