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

The bar area inside the Terminus Hotel stands quiet. Dust coats the counter and empty shelves, marking years of abandonment. Fading light illuminates the decay, revealing the ghosts of past patrons in this forgotten space.

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Bar Area at Terminus Hotel, the bar stands empty, its silence louder than the crowds that once filled the room.Bar Area at Terminus Hotel, the bar stands empty, its silence louder than the crowds that once filled the room.Bar Area at Terminus Hotel, the bar stands empty, its silence louder than the crowds that once filled the room.Bar Area at Terminus Hotel, the bar stands empty, its silence louder than the crowds that once filled the room.Bar Area at Terminus Hotel, the bar stands empty, its silence louder than the crowds that once filled the room.
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
290 × 200 mm
Location
Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia
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 John Street side of 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 Harris Street 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

Terminus Hotel

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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