In today's episode, we explore the intense rivalry between two prominent figures of Victorian Cardiff: John Batchelor, a passionate Liberal politician and businessman, and John Crichton-Stuart, the 3rd Marquess of Bute in the midst of the rise of Cardiff in the Victorian period.

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