Basement To Victoria Road
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 70mm · f/8.0 · 1/5 · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
From the decaying depths of the Balmain Leagues Club basement, a view opens onto Victoria Road. Harsh light illuminates cracked concrete and forgotten debris, marking the building's derelict state in 2015.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Basement To Victoria Road
- Series
- Balmain Leagues Club
- Catalogue
- BLC-004
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 16 October 2015
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 1/5 s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 70 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia
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Concrete columns run in rows through the basement level, holding a low ceiling slab. The floor is slick with grime and scattered debris. Broken glass, crushed cans, plastic bags. Graffiti covers the brick and rendered walls to the left, layered thick in black and silver. Daylight pushes in from the Victoria Road side through chain-link fencing and overgrown planter beds. The air down here sits heavy and damp.
Brett Patman
The series
Balmain Leagues Club
Balmain Leagues Club opened in 1957 on the corner of Victoria Road and Darling Street in Rozelle, supporting the Balmain Tigers, one of the NSW Rugby League's original nine clubs. The Tigers' premiership tally was, until the mid-1990s, second only to St George and South Sydney. The Australian Rugby League listed the site as a place of historical significance during the code's 2008 centenary. The club closed on 28 March 2010 under a NSW Government order to vacate for what was then the Sydney Metro project. The metro alignment was later changed and the site was not used. The building stood empty on the corner of Victoria Road for over a decade through a series of failed redevelopment attempts. Demolition and rebuild as the Rozelle Village mixed-use development began in 2023, with a new Wests Ashfield Leagues Club to return to the site.
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