Pubs in Cardiff

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The Four Bars Inn

The Four Bars Inn was a jazz club and public house in Cardiff, Wales now known as "Dempseys".

The pub was originally called "The Globe" and dates back to 1731. It has also been known as "Dukes", before becoming "The Four Bars Inn" and (currently) an Irish themed bar called "Dempseys".

The jazz club was founded by Jed Williams in 1987, who was also musical director of the Brecon Jazz Festival. Williams, together with vocalist/trombonist Mike Harries formed the Inn's house band The Root Doctors. The Inn featured live jazz seven days a week for many years. American blues and rock'n'roll legend Nappy Brown appeared there on 13 June 1988. Currently, live jazz is performed once or twice per week.

In 2009 the Four Bars Inn was named by the Brecon Jazz Festival as one of 12 venues which had made the most important contributions to jazz music in the United Kingdom.

Coordinates: 51°28′52″N 3°10′54″W / 51.4810°N 3.1817°W / 51.4810; -3.1817

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Golden Cross, Cardiff

The Golden Cross is a Grade II listed public house in the centre of Cardiff, Wales. The current building dates from 1903 and is noted for its distinctive ceramic tiling.

A pub has existed on the site since 1849. It was renamed The Golden Cross in 1863. Around 1903/4 it was rebuilt in its current form (the tiles in the bar are dated 1903).

During the Second World War the fascist leader Oswald Mosley attempted to hold a meeting at the pub but violent opposition forced him to return to London.

The pub was threatened with demolition in 1979 but reprieved after a local newspaper campaign. It had been given listed status in 1975.

The Golden Cross has become a popular gay friendly pub, with regular drag acts and entertainment. It was voted in 2004 as the best gay pub in the UK.

Coordinates: 51°28′37″N 3°10′28″W / 51.47705°N 3.17444°W / 51.47705; -3.17444

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Royal Oak, Cardiff

The Royal Oak is a Grade II listed public house on Newport Road in the Adamsdown/Roath area of Cardiff, Wales.

The pub dates from the late 19th century. In the early part of the 20th century it was run by a cousin of the boxer, Jim Driscoll, who on his death bequeathed his Lonsdale Belt to the pub. The pub developed a boxing theme, with memorabilia on the walls and, unusually, a professional boxing gym above the function room.

In the 1980s the Royal Oak had a vibrant rock and punk music scene.

It was given listed status in 2006 as a "well-preserved late C19 purpose-built public house particularly rare in preserving much of its original planning in the bar areas".

The pub was known for serving its Brains SA beer by gravity from barrels behind the bar, though in the 21st century it is pumped from the cellar, still 'flat' without a creamy head.

In 2010 the Royal Oak was the only Cardiff pub to make it onto list of the Top 100 Famous UK pubs, compiled by whisky maker Famous Grouse.

Coordinates: 51°29′25″N 3°08′57″W / 51.4903°N 3.1492°W / 51.4903; -3.1492

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The Corporation, Cardiff

The Corporation, also known as The Corp, is a public house on a prominent corner of the suburb of Canton in Cardiff, Wales. Opened in 1889 it closed in March 2016, possibly temporarily, when the then tenants Greene King did not renew the lease.

Dating from 1889 The Corporation was built on Cardiff Corporation land, hence the name. It is on a prominent corner of what was known as Canton Cross (and the site of Canton Market) but nowadays on the corner of Cowbridge Road East and Llandaff Road.

The building is a generous two-storey building faced with dark grey rockfaced pennant sandstone rubble. It has a four storey tower above the main entrance. The Corporation received a Grade II heritage listing in 2001, being a "bold and unaltered piece of late 19th-century street architecture" and in close proximity to Canton Library.

Owned by Cardiff Council, the pub was leased to the pubco, Greene King, until March 2016 when they decided not to renew their tenancy. The leasehold was advertised on behalf of the Council, with its alcohol licence still valid for continued use as a pub.

Coordinates: 51°28′55″N 3°12′08″W / 51.4819°N 3.2022°W / 51.4819; -3.2022

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The Vulcan, Cardiff

The Vulcan, Cardiff

The Vulcan Hotel is an historic hotel and public house, that was located in Adamsdown suburb of Cardiff, South Wales. Scheduled for demolition in 2009, after a long public campaign to preserve what had become Cardiff's oldest public house, in 2012 it was donated to the National History Museum at St Fagans, where it is being reconstructed.

The Vulcan Hotel was built in 1853, in the early stages of the expansion of Cardiff and the development of the Adamsdown area of Cardiff, with an original address on Whitmore Lane, Newtown. The name Vulcan, the ancient Roman God of Fire, which it kept throughout its existence, referred to the nearby ironworks.

Close to the bustling railway station of Queen Street and within walking distance of Cardiff Gaol, the pub was south of the Newport Road in the suburb's working-class area. It was frequently busy over lunch times and in the early evening, patronised by working-class people, often of Irish descent.

The building was substantially rebuilt in about 1900, and internally refurbished in 1914 by local architect F. J. Veall, at which time the building was decorated throughout with green and brown ceramic tiles. With a functional and easy-to-clean internal style, while adjoining Victorian buildings were demolished and redeveloped, twice on one side, it remained untouched, both outside and in, except for an occasional coat of paint. The pub retained its brown ceramic urinals, although the rest of the interior was updated in the 1950s. Local writer John Williams commented in 2011:

The opening, directly opposite the pub, in November 2007, of the Atrium campus of the University of Glamorgan, home to the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, gave the pub a substantial potential new customer base.

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