Main Guest Room

The main guest room at the Terminus Hotel was the largest of the upstairs rooms and is photographed with most of its original furniture still in place. A timber wardrobe stands against the back wall. A single bed-frame, unmade, sits in the corner. A chest of drawers with a mirror above it occupies the opposite wall. A leather armchair sits next to the window. The furniture is all dark-stained timber, in styles that put it somewhere between the 1920s and the 1950s. The walls are wallpapered in a faded geometric pattern. A cardigan hangs on the back of the door. The bed has not been made in a long time.

This was the publican's room. It was the largest of the upstairs accommodation at the Terminus, used by the publican and family while they ran the pub. The McElwaine family ran the Terminus from the 1970s until they closed it in 1983, and the furniture is what they had when they last lived here. Susan and Isaac Wakil bought the building and licence from the McElwaines as a long-term investment and held it for 33 years before selling on in 2016. Like most of the upstairs rooms it was largely undisturbed across that time. The cardigan on the door is theirs, or is at least the cardigan of someone who lived here. The room was reworked in the 2018 restoration. The furniture went into storage.