the Vulcan

[Rjk]

taking shape nicely in st fagans

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[RichardM]

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taking shape nicely in st fagans

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I'm looking forward to having a pint there

[az city]

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St Fagan's is a cracking museum. Nothing nicer than a stroll around it on a sunny day.

[blue matt]

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taking shape nicely in st fagans

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we popped up last Oct 1/2 term ( think it was ) the brick structure was the same as it was 2 years before ( roughly ) I know Covid hit ( and maybe they were not allowed to work ) but it really hadn't moved, glad to see its started to move forward now

[splott parker]

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Bloody sad that an old pub of ours is in a museum. Liverpool’s starving of development cash in the 70s/80s resulted in a lot of their city centre pubs being left alone. Would love to see pubs like The Lifeboat, The Greyhound, The Hope & Anchor, The Moulders Arms, The Taff Vale, The Prince Albert, The Marchioness of Bute, The Royal Oak, The Blue Anchor, The Glastonbury etc, all city centre pubs in my lifetime still alive and kicking. It was like a step back in time up there last weekend, all those little boozers packed out. Can’t see me hitting St Fagans any time soon.

[the other bob wilson]

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Bloody sad that an old pub of ours is in a museum. Liverpool’s starving of development cash in the 70s/80s resulted in a lot of their city centre pubs being left alone. Would love to see pubs like The Lifeboat, The Greyhound, The Hope & Anchor, The Moulders Arms, The Taff Vale, The Prince Albert, The Marchioness of Bute, The Royal Oak, The Blue Anchor, The Glastonbury etc, all city centre pubs in my lifetime still alive and kicking. It was like a step back in time up there last weekend, all those little boozers packed out. Can’t see me hitting St Fagans any time soon.

It’s probably me looking through rose tinted spectacles, but I don’t recall many of those pubs you mention disappearing because of a lack of customers, it was more down to the developers. The Vulcan was a bit off the beaten track for me when I went drinking in town and I assumed its location worked against it getting regular customers, but I can remember going there on a Friday night a year or two before it closed and was surprised by the number of people in there.

[BLUETIT]

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Bloody sad that an old pub of ours is in a museum. Liverpool’s starving of development cash in the 70s/80s resulted in a lot of their city centre pubs being left alone. Would love to see pubs like The Lifeboat, The Greyhound, The Hope & Anchor, The Moulders Arms, The Taff Vale, The Prince Albert, The Marchioness of Bute, The Royal Oak, The Blue Anchor, The Glastonbury etc, all city centre pubs in my lifetime still alive and kicking. It was like a step back in time up there last weekend, all those little boozers packed out. Can’t see me hitting St Fagans any time soon.

You named nearly all the Brains pubs Steve, what about The Prince Albert, The Griffin, The Terminus, The Blue Anchor plus many more

[Tom Edwards]

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I played my first gig in the Vulcan. Imagine it's 1978,the pub is full of screws from the jail and our band comes on and plays Clash, Sham 69 and Sex Pistols covers. They weren't happy. Maybe they were expecting Tie A Yellow Ribbon!

[bobh]

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about bloody time!
The Vulcan was supposed to open there years ago.

[Cleve van Leef]

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St Fagan's is a cracking museum. Nothing nicer than a stroll around it on a sunny day.

:thumbup:

[Cleve van Leef]

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You named nearly all the Brains pubs Steve, what about The Prince Albert, The Griffin, The Terminus, The Blue Anchor plus many more

The Birchgrove

[JamesWales]

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Mixed feelings on seeing that. I loved the Vulcan, and it's tragic it was lost but it will be a fantastic addition to St Fagans, which really is an amazing museum.

Cant remember when I last went, probably last summer, but I did note that the progress on the Vulcan seemed slow so it's good to see this

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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It’s probably me looking through rose tinted spectacles, but I don’t recall many of those pubs you mention disappearing because of a lack of customers, it was more down to the developers. The Vulcan was a bit off the beaten track for me when I went drinking in town and I assumed its location worked against it getting regular customers, but I can remember going there on a Friday night a year or two before it closed and was surprised by the number of people in there.

I think you're right, the location of the Vulcan wasn't great, it was in a bit of a "no man's land".

There was a new-build pub further on, just past the fire station, I think it was called "Rumpoles' or something very similar? Now THAT really was an odd place to decide to build a pub. I don't think it was ever anywhere near busy, not even on a Friday or Saturday night. Given that it was directly opposite Cardiff prison, I wonder how many inmates used to look out of their cell window and think to themselves..."As soon as I'm released, that's going to be the first place I visit!" :hehe:

[Former Labour leader]

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I played my first gig in the Vulcan. Imagine it's 1978,the pub is full of screws from the jail and our band comes on and plays Clash, Sham 69 and Sex Pistols covers. They weren't happy. Maybe they were expecting Tie A Yellow Ribbon!

😀

[tforturton]

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There was a new-build pub further on, just past the fire station, I think it was called "Rumpoles' [/I] :hehe:

There was a pub on that spot before Rumpoles was built, but I can't recall the name - a big old place. I do remember that apart from the bar and 'lounge', it had a little off-licence room with a counter and a wooden bench seat. The toilets were outside, across the back yard, in a corrugated iron shed. If it was raining, you had to dash through the puddles, and the noise inside was deafening, with the rain hammering on the roof. I can remember on a Sunday afternoon, you'd get all the wives and girlfriends of the prison inmates gathering there after visiting time. They used to stand across from the pub, and lift their tops to the guys leaning out of the prison windows. It did happen - I saw it more than once.
I guess that must have been knocked down around 1983 or 84, something like that, and the awful Rumpoles built a few years later.
It wasn't a bad spot - Courts, fire station, prison, Howard Gardens arts college - I bet they did alright.