Offices

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
24mm · f/8.0 · 2.5s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Dust coats empty desks in the former Balmain Leagues Club offices. Sunlight filters through grime-streaked windows, illuminating peeling paint and scattered debris. The silence here is absolute.

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Offices at Balmain Leagues Club, the ground was kind of like a mushy mixture of rotting paper and plasterboard.Offices at Balmain Leagues Club, the ground was kind of like a mushy mixture of rotting paper and plasterboard.Offices at Balmain Leagues Club, the ground was kind of like a mushy mixture of rotting paper and plasterboard.Offices at Balmain Leagues Club, the ground was kind of like a mushy mixture of rotting paper and plasterboard.Offices at Balmain Leagues Club, the ground was kind of like a mushy mixture of rotting paper and plasterboard.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Offices
Series
Balmain Leagues Club
Catalogue
BLC-017
Process
Giclée
Captured
16 October 2015
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
2.5s s
ISO
100
Focal length
24 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia
Recognised by
National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia
02 LOCATION

Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia

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04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The ground was kind of like a mushy mixture of rotting paper and plasterboard.

Brett Patman

Balmain Leagues Club

The series

Balmain Leagues Club

2015 · 20 photographs

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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05 SIZE GUIDE

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