Bar Floor

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/9.0 · 8s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Green glazed tiles line the bar surround at the Terminus Hotel. A pressed metal ceiling sits above the long timber counter. Debris covers the slate floor. A single red chair stands at the far end.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Bar Floor
Series: Terminus Hotel
Catalogue: THO-011
Process: Giclée
Captured: 20 March 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter: 8s 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
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 floor of the public bar at the Terminus Hotel is tiled in pale ceramic, set in a checkerboard pattern that runs the length of the room. A narrow timber footrail is fixed along the front of the bar counter, the timber worn smooth from decades of leaning elbows and shifting boots. The tiles around the footrail show the darker wear pattern of patrons standing at the bar. A row of fixed pedestal tables extends from the tiled perimeter, the tabletops scratched and dust-coated, the iron pedestals bolted into the floor. The light comes from the row of windows along the John Street wall and from the open doorway at the corner.

Tiled floors and fixed footrails were the standard fit-out of inner-Sydney public bars through the Federation era, designed to make wet-trade floors easy to wash down at end of shift. The visible building is the 1917 Tooth and Co. demolition and rebuild of the Terminus, and this floor is part of that fit-out or one of the early refits that followed. The fixed tables are a later addition, common in NSW pubs from the 1950s onwards. The pub closed in 1983 and the floor stopped being washed. The 2018 restoration kept the tilework and refinished it for service.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The main bar floor sits quietly beneath a grid of red-pressed metal, its surface cracked and coated in dust.

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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