Mens Bathroom

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 13s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The men's bathroom within the Terminus Hotel reveals years of abandonment. Peeling paint and grimy fixtures mark the decay of this once-utilised space. It stands as a silent relic of its past.

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Mens Bathroom at Terminus Hotel, a quiet view inside the men’s bathroom at the Terminus Hotel.Mens Bathroom at Terminus Hotel, a quiet view inside the men’s bathroom at the Terminus Hotel.Mens Bathroom at Terminus Hotel, a quiet view inside the men’s bathroom at the Terminus Hotel.Mens Bathroom at Terminus Hotel, a quiet view inside the men’s bathroom at the Terminus Hotel.Mens Bathroom at Terminus Hotel, a quiet view inside the men’s bathroom at the Terminus Hotel.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Mens Bathroom
Series
Terminus Hotel
Catalogue
THO-034
Process
Giclée
Captured
20 March 2016
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
13s s
ISO
100
Focal length
14 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia
Recognised by
National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia
02 LOCATION

Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The men's bathroom at the Terminus Hotel sits at one end of the upstairs corridor, a tiled room with a row of urinals along one wall, a single toilet cubicle, and a wall-mounted basin. The urinals are porcelain, the trough at floor level catching the line. The toilet cubicle has a timber partition wall and a hinged door, the door swung off one hinge. The basin is glazed white porcelain, the tap brass with a ceramic handle. The walls are tiled to head height in pale green hexagonal tile, with the upper section plastered and painted. The floor is tiled in the same pale green hexagonal pattern, the grout darkened by decades of damp and damp foot traffic.

The men's bathroom served the upstairs accommodation rooms and, when the pub was busy, the ground-floor patrons who climbed the stair to use it. The visible building is the 1917 Tooth and Co. demolition and rebuild, with the bathroom fit-out part of the accommodation requirement that drove the rebuild. The pub closed in 1983 and the bathroom was sealed for the 33 years that followed. The 2018 restoration rebuilt the upstairs bathroom facilities to modern hotel standards but kept some of the original tilework as a heritage detail.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A quiet view inside the men’s bathroom at the Terminus Hotel.

Brett Patman

Terminus Hotel

The series

Terminus Hotel

2016 · 44 photographs

The Terminus Hotel sits on the corner of Harris Street and John Street, Pyrmont. There has been a licensed pub on the corner since 1841. The current building was rebuilt in 1917 by NSW's largest brewer, Tooth & Co., closed in 1983, and reopened in 2018 after a thirty-three-year vacancy.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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