Cellar Entry

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 27mm · f/8.0 · 1/250 · ISO 400
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The cellar entry at the Terminus Hotel forms a dark opening. Rust spreads across the metal frame and concrete steps. This structure once served a busy public house, now left to decay. Inside, shadows deepen.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Cellar Entry
Series: Terminus Hotel
Catalogue: THO-001
Process: Giclée
Captured: 19 March 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/250 s
ISO: 400
Focal length: 27 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 cellar entry at the Terminus Hotel sits at the back of the public bar, a hatch in the timber floor with a vertical ladder dropping into the dark below. The hatch lid is hinged on one side, its underside painted in the institutional dark green of the pub's working areas. The ladder is hardwood, the rungs worn smooth where decades of staff hands and feet passed. A length of rope is fixed to one side of the ladder as a hand-hold for the descent. Around the hatch, the timber floor is scuffed in a half-circle pattern from the lid swinging open and shut over the years. The light from the bar above reaches only the top few rungs.

Cellar access through a trapdoor in the bar floor was the standard layout for the bigger Sydney pubs of the Federation era, allowing kegs to be lowered directly into storage and beer lines to run up to the taps with a minimum of length. The visible building is the 1917 Tooth and Co. demolition and rebuild, with the cellar arrangement set up at that time or in one of the early refits that followed. The pub closed in 1983 and the hatch stayed shut. The 2018 restoration kept the cellar access in place. The hatch lid in this photograph is essentially as it was through the working life of the pub.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Original timber swing doors, weathered and worn, still mark the entry point from the footpath down to the basement.

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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