Bar Area

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 10s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Six wooden-latched fridge doors line the end of the bar at the Terminus Hotel, their refrigeration once fed by a cellar system below. Green-glazed tiles run along the base of the walls beneath peeling paint and exposed plaster higher up, and a central service island with multiple taps and a metal rail holds the room's axis. Bright light from the rear windows cuts across empty racks, bare shelves and stripped sinks.

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In situ

Bar Area at Terminus Hotel, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Bar Area at Terminus Hotel, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Bar Area at Terminus Hotel, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Bar Area
Series: Terminus Hotel
Catalogue: THO-009
Process: Giclée
Captured: 20 March 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 10s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 mm
Location: Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The public bar at the Terminus Hotel runs along the ground floor, a long room with the timber bar counter on one side and a row of windows on the other. The pressed-metal ceiling is painted cream, partly missing in places. The timber counter top is scratched and worn from decades of glasses sliding across it. The back-bar shelving carries only empty space; the stock was cleared not long after the doors shut in 1983. The mirrors behind the shelves are darkened with dust. The floor is tiled in pale ceramic in a checkerboard pattern that runs the length of the room.

The corner has held a continuous licence since 1841, under four names: Pyrmont Hotel, Land's End, Coopers Arms (which crossed to the corner in the 1860s), and Terminus, renamed around 1900 to capitalise on the electric tram terminus opened at the front door in 1898. The visible building is the 1917 demolition and rebuild by Tooth and Co., NSW's largest brewer. The pub closed in 1983 when the McElwaine family ended its tenure. Brett photographed this room in 2016, two years before the 2018 reopening returned the building to service.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The bar stands empty, its silence louder than the crowds that once filled the room.

Brett Patman

The series

Terminus Hotel

2016 · 44 photographs

The corner of Harris and John Streets, Pyrmont, has held a licensed pub almost continuously since 1841, under four names. Sydney's Harris Street electric tram opened in 1898 and terminated at the front door. The owners added a two-storey wing and renamed the pub Terminus around 1900.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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