The Rotterdam

Old dockers pub surrounded by new-build offices and High-Rise Apartments. It has been standing since before 1827, in Pilot Street in an area of Belfast known as Sailortown.  

There is evidence in the form of manacles attached to an upstairs wall that the building was once used as a ‘holding station’ for convicts before transport to Australia.  
The place was also reportedly used as a ‘bordello’ during the early 1900’s.It survived a fire... which almost gutted the place. and two bomb attacks, one from 
Hitler and one in the early years of the troubles.