Downstairs Hallway

The downstairs hallway at the Terminus Hotel runs along the spine of the ground floor, connecting the bar at the John Street corner to the back-of-house service areas. The floor is timber, scuffed at the centre line where decades of foot traffic passed. Doors open along both sides: storerooms on one, the bar entrance on the other, the side-access door at the John Street end. The walls are plastered, painted in the institutional dark green of the pub's working areas, with the paint flaking near the skirting where damp has worked through. An arched doorway at the far end of the passage opens through to the back yard. The light reaches the hallway through the half-glazed door behind the camera and through the open doors along the sides.

This passage carried the foot traffic of the hotel through every shift of its working life. Glasses out to the wash, kegs in from the side access, deliveries from the John Street footpath, staff between the bar and the kitchen. The pub closed in 1983 and the doors along this corridor stopped being used. The corridor stayed in place across the 33 years of vacancy. The 2018 reopening kept the hallway essentially as it was, with the surface finishes redone for service.