CARDIFFREMEMBERED Pub where a future Victorian PM had a romantic rendezvous

ANOTHER historic part of old Cardiff was lost for ever when the Cow and Snuffers pub in Llandaff closed in 2010.

Our long-gone Old Inns of South Wales Evening Express correspondent Emrys Jones, in the May of 1927, had this to say about this once popular pub.

“How long the Cow and Snuffers has been in existence nobody seems to know; it is so old that, like the hills, it is a landmark that everybody knows.”

“At Llandaff they carry on the old tradition of the signboard outside the house – a practice that is almost obsolete.

“It is a large wooden board, depicting a cow grazing in a meadow, and down below is inset a pair of old fashioned candle snuffers.”

“The name and sign, for the explanation of which I have probed in vain, has probably been the same from time immemorable, but the years have wrought tremendous changes in the inn itself.

“It is, no doubt, a palatial affair contrasted with the old white-washed building that was; but no changes in its appearance can rob it of its fame.”

Our correspondent goes on to tell his readers how he held in his hands the original pair of snuffers in the inn and how they resembled a pair of scissors. On one blade was a little box and on the other a lid, so that when closed over the wick of a candle they put out the flame.

We are told that: “These snuffers awake in the mind a flood of thoughts and incidents that are bound up with the history of England.

“Why, even the flamboyant Disraeli, with his bizarre clothes and unconventional elegance, may have handled these very same snuffers!

“For, so the story goes, he was a visitor – and a romantic visitor at that – to the old Cow and Snuffers in Llandaff.

“It was a love affair that brought