Cathays the elderly. A popular local charity, one of its many benefactors was the boxer Jim Driscoll, who after burial in Cathays cemetery in 1925 has had his grave tended to this day by the nuns of Nazareth House. In 1898, John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute sold a large piece of land to Cardiff Council for the building of a new City Hall, imposing strict conditions regarding what purpose and where development could take place. As a result, the city hall was built as far south in the purchased block of land as was possible, and the residual area to
Fairwater, Double Bay stone retaining walls being both part of the earlier build of the house and as an element which set the garden and house within the land allotment. The plantings within a large land holding situated on the foreshore of Port Jackson. The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales. The association between "Fairwater" and J. W. Manson in view of the house being one of a number of new buildings undertaken by Manson and Pickering in the local area during the period -1912. Fairwater, Double Bay Fairwater