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 abandoned Terminus Hotel, the cold storage room lies silent. Rusting metal shelves and defunct machinery fill the space. A palpable chill lingers, a memory of its past purpose.

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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: 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

A cold-storage cabinet sits along one wall of the kitchen at the Terminus Hotel, the unit standing about the height of an adult with a wide hinged door and a brass latch handle. The cabinet is metal-clad on the outside, white-painted, scuffed at the corners and along the bottom edge. The door is partly open. Inside, the shelves are stripped, the lining dulled by age. The compressor that once cooled the unit is mounted on top, with the refrigerant pipes running back to the wall behind. The tiled floor in front of the cabinet is darker at the foot of the door, where decades of condensation from the seal worked down into the grout.

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; this cabinet was one of the units left in place. By the 2016 sale of the building, the cabinet had been here 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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