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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Beloved Cardiff pub demolished in 2012 reopens after brick-by-brick rebuild on new site

Exterior of the Vulcan pub
The Vulcan alehouse, painstakingly restored. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/The Guardian

For more than a century and a half, the Vulcan Hotel served dockers, railway workers, artists, sports stars, gamblers and dreamers and the demolition in 2012 of this beloved, spit-and-sawdust Cardiff pub felt like a bereavement.

Twelve years on, the pints are about to flow and the pickled eggs served again after a painstaking project to move the old alehouse brick by brick to a new site and reopen it as a working pub.

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