Ross David Lloyd 

On 12 January 1986, the Bute East Dock warehouse was destroyed by an apparently accidental fire. The following day’s South Wales Echo reported that fire fighters were hampered in their bid to control the flames because many of the disused building’s doors and windows had been bricked up. While the fire hastened its demise, this warehouse would probably have been demolished within a short time anyway, to make way for the Central Link Road, which opened in 1989. All sounds a little untoward and a devastating blow to the Cardiff Dockside regeneration