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Beloved Cardiff Pub Demolished In 2012 Reopens After Brick-by-brick Rebuild On New Site

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Historic alehouse frequented by a Manic Street Preacher and All Black rugby players reconstructed on edge of Welsh capital

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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