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Fabulous picture, big part of Cardiff history
Fabulous picture, big part of Cardiff history
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Nice to see it finally coming along. It is a lovely day out on a summers day. Even better if there’s a pub there! One of my kids favourite place to head to head tooOriginally posted by blue matt View PostComment
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Apparently that is actually true….probably why it was always dead and now gone. Enough pubs in Adamsdown and splott gone anyway without another soulless one vying for business….Originally posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five View PostI 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!"
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The pub on the corner opposite the prison, before they built Rumpoles, was called The Rhymney, I think?Comment
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The Vulcan was busy for a good few years before it was removed.
A lot of students used it after the part regeneration across the road and the people who ran it used to have live music in there which drew in new and local custom.
It was the owner's decision (Rapport I believe) to make way for the car park and like many other pubs in the area was consigned to the history books.
The pubs already mentioned were demolished due to the regeneration if the area which started in the 70's and the same thing happened a mere 30 years later with the St Davids 2 development.
Those pubs were either sold off or left to rot so that they became so unstable that they had to be demolished. Very convenient.
All in the name of progress, in the main shopping malls.
Where will the white elepants that exist now be in twenty to thirty years, doubt I'll be around to see but my guess would be either in landfill or recycled.Comment
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Wow. I had no idea. Good, I suppose. But also very sad. A Cardiff landmark gone.Comment
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I used to work directly opposite The Vulcan in the old BT building Enterprise House. Nice to see it finally being rebuilt.Comment
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they built the shell and then the building stopped, was a shell for a number of years, in fact I seem to remember the footings were done a fair time before thatOriginally posted by bobh View PostComment
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I mentioned the Blue Anchor, did forget The Griffin and another old haunt of mine The York. Used The Prince Albert a few times, with the tree in the middle of the room. The Terminus is still alive and kicking though albeit under another name.Originally posted by BLUETIT View PostComment
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Definitely the Rhymney, opposite the fire station, before that was moved. I remember going in there, having a drink watching a mate of mine, on The Price is Right.Comment
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Me and the missus wracking our brains trying to think of the other pub by there. She used to live in Adam St years ago, she seems to think it was The Eagle.Originally posted by SOXY BOY View PostComment
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I bet they won’t be really authentic and have someone selling baggies in the car parkComment
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