Bar Shelving

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 15s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Dust settles on the wooden bar shelving inside the Terminus Hotel. This establishment once welcomed railway travellers and local patrons, its vibrant history now slowly fading within these silent walls.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Bar Shelving
Series: Terminus Hotel
Catalogue: THO-013
Process: Giclée
Captured: 20 March 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 15s 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 bar shelving at the Terminus Hotel sits behind the public bar counter, the timber-framed back-bar built into the wall with mirrors at the back and three tiers of shelves in front. The shelves are stripped of stock. The mirrors are darkened with dust and slightly mottled where the silvering has lifted away from the back. Brass mounting brackets hold the shelves at each tier, the brass darkened with patina. A small brass rail along the front of each shelf prevented bottles from falling. The timber framing is hardwood, dark-stained, in the style of the Federation-era hotel fit-out.

The back-bar at the Terminus was where the spirits, the wine, and the more expensive beer were displayed during trade. The arrangement was the standard inner-Sydney pub layout: the mirrors made the room look wider and reflected the lights along the counter, and the brass rail kept the stock secure on the shelves. The visible building dates from the 1917 Tooth and Co. demolition and rebuild, and this shelving is consistent with that fit-out or one of the early-twentieth-century refits that followed. The pub closed in 1983. The 2018 restoration kept the back-bar in place and re-stocked the shelves with the modern range.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A built-in timber cabinet sits behind the bar, its doors open. Three shelves divide the interior into even compartments. The upper section is painted a muted sage green, worn back to bare wood at the edges. Lower panels are pale cream with raised moulding. Dark composite shelves carry a film of grey dust. Small circular mounting points line the shelf lips where rail fittings were once fixed. Light falls flat and even across the interior. No glass. No bottles. Nothing left.

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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