{"id":8256,"date":"2012-05-01T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=8256"},"modified":"2012-05-04T11:35:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T10:35:19","slug":"save-the-vulcan-hotel-pub-in-cardiff-demo-on-11th-may-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/save-the-vulcan-hotel-pub-in-cardiff-demo-on-11th-may-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Vulcan Hotel pub in Cardiff &#8211; demo on 11th May 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8257\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/save-the-vulcan-hotel-pub-in-cardiff-demo-on-11th-may-2012\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,465\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"save-cardiff-vulcan-pub\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8257\" title=\"save-cardiff-vulcan-pub\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub.jpg\" alt=\"Save the Cardiff Vulcan pub\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In my\u00a0home town\u00a0of\u00a0Cardiff, a campaign has kicked off to save one of the capital city\u2019s oldest pubs from closure and demolition.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8279\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/save-the-vulcan-hotel-pub-in-cardiff-demo-on-11th-may-2012\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,485\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-2.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8279\" title=\"save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-2.jpg\" alt=\"Save the Vulcan Hotel pub in Cardiff - demo on 11th May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-2-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dating from 1853, and voted Cardiff Pub of the Year in 1997, the Vulcan Hotel now stands adrift in an area surrounded by modern redevelopments.<\/p>\n<p>Its owners, Marcol Asset Management Limited, claim that the pub is\u00a0no longer \u201ccommercially viable,\u201d while campaigners accuse its brewery tenants Messrs Brains &amp; Co of just abandoning this fine old Welsh boozer to its \u00a0fate.<\/p>\n<p>The historic pub is now due to close on\u00a0May 31st 2012.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8280\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/save-the-vulcan-hotel-pub-in-cardiff-demo-on-11th-may-2012\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,412\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8280\" title=\"save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-1.jpg\" alt=\"Save the Vulcan Hotel pub in Cardiff - demo on 11th May 2012\" width=\"620\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 4th May 2012:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/cardiff-pub-the-vulcan-loses-its-fight-to-survive-building-to-move-to-national-history-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\"> the pub has already closed &#8211; read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Vulcan, Cardiff: We Loves It. \u00a0Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/vulcan-coming-downgoing-back-up.195688\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the thread on the urban75 forums.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/savethevulcanhotel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sign the\u00a0petition\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and view the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/8831485923\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page here<\/a>.<br \/>\nRead more about the campaign here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/2012\/03\/08\/brains-brewery-calls-time-on-the-vulcan-cardiff-s-oldest-pub-91466-30485586\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brains brewery calls time on the Vulcan, Cardiff\u2019s oldest pub<\/a>\u00a0[Wales Online]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterfinch.co.uk\/vulcan.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Real Cardiff: The Vulcan<\/a>\u00a0[Peter Finch]<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcan<br \/>\n10 Adam Street<br \/>\nAdamsdown<br \/>\nCF24 2FH<br \/>\nPhone : (029) 20461580<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/g.co\/maps\/ng86t\" target=\"_blank\">Map location<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my\u00a0home town\u00a0of\u00a0Cardiff, a campaign has kicked off to save one of the capital city\u2019s oldest pubs from closure and demolition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[193,198],"tags":[1196,438,1194],"class_list":["post-8256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-places","category-wales-places","tag-cardiff","tag-pub","tag-wales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/save-cardiff-vulcan-pub.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-29a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8256"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8283,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256\/revisions\/8283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}