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In 1913 Vachell's charity built what is now called the Guild
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Clifton on 29 December 1923. The charity that she had created continued until 1987 when it sold off its property and became a trust. The building in Bragg's Lane was used by the local council until 2010 when it was sold. Two locals bought it and it is now fittingly the local
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left Ada weak and partially deaf and it killed two of her three brothers. Her father was Mayor of
Cardiff for the third and last time in 1875 and in 1877 the whole family moved to
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