Cardiff’s Vulcan Hotel pub to reopen at St Fagans

Michelle Lewis ran the Vulcan for the final two years before it closed, and pulled the last pint behind the bar.

“It was such a fun place to work,” she said.

“It was really hard work, but looking at it now, how it is today, I do think ‘I wish I could go back’.

“It’s nice as well to be part of something that is going to be here forever”.

Dafydd William, principal curator of historic buildings at Museum Wales, said: “You have to record every detail, because once you have taken the building down, it is gone, and you have to refer back to your notes.”

“The year 1915 was the year that the look of the Vulcan, as we remember it, was established.

“We have copies of the architectural plans from that period, so we have a very good idea of how the building looked.”