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Pubocalypse 11
BUB’SChurch StreetThis effort from the Crafty Devil microbrewery didn’t even last four years, as I predicted with uncanny accuracy in Pubocalypse 7. Guess what? There’s no place for small independents …
Pubocalypse 10
CALLAGHANS Castle StreetThe plug-ugly Crest Hotel (later Posthouse, currently Holiday Inn) was built on the northern flank of the Arms Park in 1971. The dreadful development eradicated a leafy public …
Pubocalypse 9
Pandemic fall-out is likely to mean that a lot of the pubs ‘temporarily’ closed during lockdown will never open again. The random, spontaneous social mixing intrinsic to a public house …
Pubocalypse 8
BUFFALO BAR Windsor Place In Cardiff’s dysfunctional, parasitic economy, predicated on personal debt, profligate unsustainability, Ponzi-scheme profiteering and fly-by-night transience, the last few defiant flickers of independent nonconformity are being …
Pubocalypse 7
Because the Pubocalypse strand has grown into a large archive, I’ve now made it into a category in its own right – saving me the hassle of providing links to …
Pubocalypse 6
Continuing from Pubocalypses 1-5, an ongoing record of Cardiff’s ever-shrinking social sphere… BASE + BARLEY Queen Street Opened in March 2016, shut by the November: you had to move fast …
Pubocalypse 5
It’s been a while since my last round-up of Cardiff’s disappearing pubs… BACCHUS Park Place This distinguished 1874 house, all honeyed orange brick, gothic touches and decorative bargeboards, was only …
Pubocalypse 4
Continuing from http://tinyurl.com/l2x9suw, http://tinyurl.com/pxahucs and http://tinyurl.com/lhkb5c4: THE FLORA Flora Street The Flora Hotel opened in 1884 to serve the railway community of Cathays Yard that had grown up around the locomotive depot of the …
Pubocalypse 3
Continuing an occasional series, another batch of recently closed Cardiff pubs: THE FAT CAT Greyfriars Road Fat Cat strutted into Cardiff in 2006 to the sound of fanfares, intent on luring punters …
Pubocalypse 2
Picking up where I left off in a previous blog, http://tinyurl.com/l2x9suw, here, in alphabetical order, are another ten recently closed Cardiff pubs for the record: BAR ELEMENT Crwys Road Sleazy dive summarily …