Side Access

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/8.0 · 1/25 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A narrow service passage runs between the Terminus Hotel's timber wall and a rendered facade. Peeling paint. Exposed pipes. Ferns and creeping vines push through the debris. A red ball sits on the ground.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Side Access
Series: Terminus Hotel
Catalogue: THO-036
Process: Giclée
Captured: 20 March 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/25 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 side access door at the Terminus Hotel opens onto the John Street footpath, the timber doorway recessed into the building's red-brick facade. The door is hardwood, painted in the institutional dark green of the pub's working areas, scuffed at the bottom panel where decades of crates and deliveries clipped it. A brass plate beside the door is too tarnished to read. Above the doorway, an inset stone lintel carries carved lettering from an earlier period of the building's life. Ivy has climbed across part of the facade around the door but the doorway itself is clear.

The side access was the working door for the Terminus, used for deliveries, kegs, staff entry, and the back-of-house traffic that kept the pub running. The visible building is the 1917 Tooth and Co. demolition and rebuild, but the carved stonework above the door is consistent with the kind of dressed-stone detail Tooth and Co. used on Federation hotel work of the period. The pub closed in 1983 and the door stayed shut through the 33 years of vacancy. The 2018 restoration kept the lintel and the surrounding stonework in place as part of the heritage fit-out. The photograph is from 2016, two years before the reopening.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A narrow passage runs between a timber fence and the rendered side wall of the Terminus Hotel. Paint peels from cast iron drainpipes bolted to crumbling brickwork. Ivy blankets the upper storeys and spills downward in thick curtains. Ferns and ground cover have swallowed the path. A single red ball sits in the undergrowth near the entrance, the only colour against wet earth and dead leaves. The air here is damp and still.

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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