Within the Terminus Hotel, a narrow service corridor runs past the cold store. Peeling green paint covers the lower walls, exposed pipes run overhead, and the heavy metal door hangs with its rubber seal long perished.

Cold Storage

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/8.0 · 6s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Within the Terminus Hotel, a narrow service corridor runs past the cold store. Peeling green paint covers the lower walls, exposed pipes run overhead, and the heavy metal door hangs with its rubber seal long perished. The kitchen once sat to the right. Photographed in 2016, during the years the pub stood closed.

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In situ

Cold Storage at Terminus Hotel, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

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

Cold Storage at Terminus Hotel, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Cold Storage
Series: Terminus Hotel
Catalogue: THO-020
Process: Giclée
Captured: 20 March 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 6s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 21 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

A narrow service corridor runs past the cold store at the Terminus Hotel. Peeling green paint covers the lower walls and exposed pipes run overhead. The heavy metal door hangs at the left of the frame, its rubber seal long perished. The kitchen sat to the right. The photograph was made in 2016, during the years the pub stood closed.

Commercial cold storage of this kind was standard equipment in working Sydney pubs from the 1930s onwards, holding the meat, dairy, and other perishables for counter meals. The Terminus operated a working pub kitchen until 1983, when the McElwaine family ended its tenure. The major kitchen equipment was sold or scrapped after closure; the cold store was one of the fittings left in place. By the 2016 sale of the building it had stood unused for at least 33 years. The 2018 restoration cleared the room and rebuilt the kitchen with all-new commercial equipment.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Light cuts across the floor in a quiet diagonal, illuminating years of dust and decay in this narrow passageway.

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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