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Following several plans to convert the structure into a hotel SOM Properties applied for planning permission for a conversion in
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Council of the Northern Ireland War Memorial moving to nearby Talbot Street in 2006 and selling the building. The Council took with them original features including a stained-glass memorial window by
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Council of the Northern Ireland War Memorial, who also used part of the building to house an exhibition on the role Northern Irish people played during the
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regimental museum was also located in the building. On 18 February 1970 the War
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that was blocked up in the 1970s for security reasons. Sugar House Entry was formerly home to a number of inns, one of which was the first meeting place of the
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