Tuesday 1 December 2009

Cardiff Pub Closures

From Brew Wales


Following up from the occasional series on pub closures in the Newport, over the weekend the Brew Wales editorial team decided to take a similar look at Cardiff pubs. Needed a list of pubs to begin with, so the 1996 Complete Guide to Cardiff's Pubs was the starting point. This excellent booklet, written by Dave Matthews (Seidr Dai) is still useful today and was a follow-up to an edition published the previous year. Also used was the Cardiff Pubs foldaway booklet published in 2005 plus some local knowledge and of course the South Wales Echo.


Pubs closed since 1996


  1. Purple Dragon
  2. Angel Tavern
  3. Avondale
  4. Baltimore Arms
  5. Baroness of Windsor (SA Brain)
  6. Bel Air Cafe Bar
  7. Bird in Hand
  8. Bristol Hotel
  9. Bulldog Inn
  10. Bute Dock
  11. Carpenters Arms
  12. Comet
  13. Crown
  14. Crown Hotel
  15. Custom House, (SA Brain) demolished
  16. Eldon Arms
  17. Emporium
  18. Gio's Cafe Bar
  19. Glendower Hotel, (SA Brain) demolished
  20. Global Beer Co
  21. Green Parrot
  22. Grosvenor
  23. Guildhall Tavern, converted to Chinese Restaurant
  24. Gws
  25. Harvester
  26. Horse & Groom
  27. Inn on the River, demolished, (SA Brain)
  28. Jumpin' Jacks
  29. Locomotive
  30. Lord Windsor
  31. New Addie, was the Moira
  32. Moorlands Hotel
  33. New Dock Tavern (SA Brain)
  34. Old Airport Inn
  35. Orange kipper
  36. Paddle Steamer
  37. Park Vaults
  38. Pierhead Cafe Bar
  39. Plymouth
  40. Potter's Wheel
  41. Pump House Tavern
  42. Radyr Arms
  43. Rat & Carrot
  44. Red House
  45. Royal Exchange
  46. Rumpoles (SA Brain)
  47. Ruperra
  48. Tredegar Hotel
  49. Ty Glas
  50. Wells Hotel
  51. White Lion
  52. Yardarm

Almost the same number of pubs closed in Cardiff from 1996 as in Newport since 1997 comes as a bit of surprise, though Cardiff has a greater population and larger area. This is shown by more pubs being refurbished and changing their names since 1996, ie, more money being spent on the pubs.

Pubs renamed since 1996

  1. 42nd Street – Bar Billibong (SA Brain)
  2. Albert – Yard (SA Brain)
  3. The Anthonys – Caerau
  4. Apollo – Cayo Arms (Marstons)
  5. Canal Boat – Blackweir Tavern (SA Brain)
  6. Toucan Club – Callaghan's Irish Bar
  7. Clancy's – George
  8. Cross Inn – Aneurin Bevan (JDW)
  9. Exchange – Cornerstone
  10. Ferret & His Trouser Leg – Philharmonic
  11. Flyhalf and Firkin – Queens Vaults (JW Basset)
  12. Four Bars – Dempseys (SA Brain)
  13. Leather Bottle – Jug and Bottle
  14. Maindy Hotel – North Star
  15. Market Tavern – O'Neils
  16. Morgans – Buccaneer
  17. Mulligans – Kitty Flynns
  18. Murrayfield – Grand Slam
  19. Newt & Cucumber – Copa
  20. New Ely – the End
  21. O'Dwyer's Bar – Forester's
  22. Pennsylvania – New Penn
  23. Poacher's Lodge – Mochyn Du
  24. Rose & Crown – Barfly
  25. Rosie O'Brien's Pumphouse – Flares
  26. Royal Hotel – O'Neils
  27. Sam's Bar – Zinc
  28. Ship & Pilot – Mischief's Cafe Bar
  29. Yellow Kangaroo – Bar YK


Again the pub openings have been more than Newport, though there is still net loss of 29 pubs in 13 years for Cardiff, compared with a net loss of 43 Newport pubs in 12 years.



Pubs Opened Since 1996

  1. Central Bar (JDW)
  2. Crockerton (JDW)
  3. Prince of Wales (JDW)
  4. Ernest Willows(JDW)
  5. Ivor Davies (JDW)
  6. Gatekeeper (JDW)
  7. Terra Nova (SA Brain)
  8. Salt (SA Brain)
  9. Slug and Lettuce
  10. Red Cow
  11. Y Cadno (Evan Evans)
  12. 33 Windsor Place (SA Brain)
  13. Cardiff Gate
  14. Aneurin Bevan (JDW) was Cross Inn, Gabalfa
  15. Eli Jenkins (M & B)
  16. Hemingway
  17. Goscombe (Barracuda)
  18. Great Western (JDW)
  19. Inncognito (SA Brain)
  20. Varsity (Barracuda)
  21. Walkabout
  22. Watergaurd (Sam Smith's)
  23. Gwdihw

Admittedly some of those new openings are cafe bars and there are a that may be missed off the above list. Also the new hotel bars have not been included – very few of them are of interest to the average pub goer.

2 comments:

john said...

Bute Dock and White Lion are still open

Brew Wales said...

Bute Dock was closed earlier this year, will check on it when next in the Bay.
White Lion, Cowbridge Rd, has been shut for years I thought - will check again on passing.

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