1015221 Aloft Hotel

Built in, around and *on top of* The Tenters pub, the new licence number here suggests that The Tenters licence had either lapsed fully or was sold off during its long term closure, but Aloft (a Marriot sub-brand) have returned the function of a bar to the form of the old pub at last. Its not what it was by any means, but at least its something.

The Tenters has remained as the name of the ground floor bar here (there is another on the roof, apparently; which I did not visit) and takes its name from the area - not the other way around as is often the case. The name from the use of tenterhooks (yes, those are a real thing) to stretch drying cloth produced by workers in the area in the now relatively distant past.

This is another hotel built where residential was proposed - Mill Court Apartments went to construction in 2007 when the writing was on the wall, and construction stopped - with the hotel construction starting in 2016/7 and the rotting remains of The Tenters stripped back to its facade

You can enter the bar from the street rather than from the hotel lobby; and it is fully self contained - but it cannot get away from being a hotel bar in how it now operates. I never visited The Tenters before its closure (which I think was in 2005/6 but I have no certainty on that - it was closed by 2009 anyway) but I presume it was a traditional Liberties boozer and not a fairly sanitised hotel bar.

They've tried their best really, with old photos of the area - and the pub itself - but unless locals start drinking here out of preference it'll never even start to become what it was.