News about James Dean Bradfield
After being relocated brick by brick to a new location ten miles away, the Vulcan pub reopens
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February 8, 2024
Until it was closed more than ten years ago, the Vulcan was a much-loved traditional working class pub in Adamsdown, Cardiff. After years of brutal steelworkers and dockers in Cardiff, actors Rhys Ifans and Manic Street Preachers singer James Dean Bradfield pleaded for the pub to be saved. The brewery decided to donate it to the St Fagans National Museum of History ten miles away, and a bar employee recruitment campaign was launched.
Since being relocated ten miles brick-by-brick, a pub built in the 1830s is expected to reopen
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January 6, 2023
Before it was closed more than ten years ago, the Vulcan Hotel in Cardiff was a much-loved traditional working class boozer. James Dean Bradfield, a Notting Hill actor, and Manic Street Preachers actor James Dean Bradfield backed calls for the pub to be salvaged after it served generations of steelworkers and dockers. Brains brewery agreed to donate it to a museum ten miles away, and now it is being restored to its original condition.