Confectionery Warehouse

A confectionery warehouse on Parramatta Road carries the painted name of the business across the upper face of the building. The lettering is in a serif face once chosen for visibility from the highway. Below the sign, the shopfront has been boarded over with sheet metal. The windows of the upper floor are intact but darkened. The building is a single-block commercial building in the corridor's typical post-war form: ground-floor commercial, narrow upper floor, painted parapet at the top. The brick face has been overpainted multiple times across the decades; the underlying paint scheme shows through at the edges where the top coat has weathered.

Parramatta Road runs west from Sydney's CBD as the city's oldest arterial road, and the corridor's commercial buildings track the long arc of inner-Sydney industry from the late nineteenth century to the present. Confectioners, fabric retailers, hardware merchants, and motor-trade businesses lined the road through its peak commercial period; many of those businesses are gone, with the buildings still standing under shuttered fronts. The corridor has been the subject of redevelopment proposals for decades. Brett photographed the building in September 2016, when the boarded shopfront still carried the original commercial signage and the upper floor had not yet been touched by the next round of development.