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Save The Vulcan pub in Cardiff - one of the city's oldest boozers faces demolition

Good to see Dai Wilton quoted, good Plaid member, shame that Ken Clarke gets a mention though, don't recall seeing him supporting the campaign at all apart from a random tory photo op.

Politics aside though this is good news and shows what a popular campaign can do, I go to the vulcan once every few months and am noticeably different to the regular crowd there, but its a wicked building.
 
lewislewis said:
Politics aside though this is good news and shows what a popular campaign can do, I go to the vulcan once every few months and am noticeably different to the regular crowd there, but its a wicked building.
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Yeah me too, though the regular crowd are always friendly enough, and they serve a CRACKING pint of Brains :D
 
Excellent news. ddraig and softy took me for a drink in there when I was in Cardiff over Easter and I thought it was a fantastic place. Far too good to lose. I hope this is more than just a temporary reprieve - it would be criminal to destroy a place of such character.
 
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looks like they've closed it today! sly :hmm:

Historic Cardiff Pub Saved for the Nation​
Following the decision to close the Vulcan Hotel, Cardiff, the property’s owners Marcol Asset Management Limited, have agreed to donate it to St Fagans: National History Museum in order to preserve the building for the Nation.​
The Vulcan was built in 1853 to serve the new, mainly Irish, community in Adamsdown then known as New Town. The exterior of the two storey building is virtually unchanged, the lower half of the façade being tiled in green and white and the upper floor faced in brick.​
With the agreement of Marcol and licensees Gwyn and Sandra Lewis, the tenants, SA Brain & Co Ltd, today (Friday 4th May) closed the Vulcan. St Fagans staff will now move in to measure, photograph and document the building, before dismantling and placing it in storage.​
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plans to move it to St Fagans museum
http://www.andrewwilcox.net/2012/05...to-move-to-national-history-museum-st-fagans/
 
Will it still be a proper boozer when it's in the museum? St Fagans is crying out for a real pub, and I'd love to be pissed wandering about the grounds at night.
 
Work has started on moving one of Cardiff's oldest pubs brick-by-brick to be rebuilt at St Fagans National History Museum.

The Vulcan Hotel served drinkers for more than 150 years but finally shut due to dwindling customers.

Museum experts have started the process to record the building's historic features before removing it from the edge of the city centre.

They plan to rebuild it at the museum and want to reopen it as working pub.

Gerallt Nash, curator of historic buildings at the museum, described the painstaking process of recording the building in photographs before work on dismantling it gets under way.

"What you have got to do is assess the building, look at it, take lots of photographs, hundreds, maybe thousands of measurements so that you can record the building and then dismantle it all," he said.
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This makes me sad. What will happen to the space after? Nothing I presume, will it just create more parking spaces? Cardiff city centre frustrates me, why is no importance placed on retaining period buildings. Seems the planning dept are too keen to make Cardiff indistinguishable from any other town or city in the country.

The Vulcan was a proper pub, no food no music just beer and people at the bar coughing up a lung.
Only went on there a few times, I remember there was a butchery round the corner and one time two guys who worked there walked in wearing bloody overalls pushing a trolley full of bagged up meat. They then proceeded to call out names of locals in the bar and hand out their preordered meat: "two pounda mince, that you tommo?"
Shame it has to go at all but at least it will be preserved in st fagans. Wonder how long it will take to relocate?
 
agreed
a pub from 1853 should be preserved

they did have a jukebox in the back room, a flippy cd one with a lot of decent stuff alongside the dross

it gives some indication of how long it will take in the video in Kingsway91's bbc link
and apparently it will serve beer when rebuilt at st fagans
 
I was only at The Vulcan the once - 24th May 2008 - and it was a fucking great boozer. Nothing fancy, excellent pint of Brains and a truly lovely bunch of locals - decent jukebox too, remember dancing to some of the jukebox tunes. Learned the Mafi and Tipoki jig outside the front of the pub. Bumped into a friend from Goldsmiths' College that i hadn't seen for over a decade, whose local it was - so we were even better looked after. At Last Orders we were stood outside the front sucking on ciggies, a kind lady asked us if we wanted to carry on drinking (sure we did, Munster had just won Heineken Cup again), so in we went for an old school lock-in.

The craic continued for quite a while. At one point, going from the back bar to the front bar, i saw the lady who had asked us if we wanted to carry on drinking slumped down lying on the floor by the front door - i asked if she was OK, she answered "Don't mind about me, I'm minding the door". Seriously ace night really. The Vulcan stood proud against encroaching development.

The thought of such a proper boozer being removed for more fucking car parking space is truly saddening. The Vulcan had soul.
 
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