Stairs Landing

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 main staircase landing within the Terminus Hotel sits silent. Dust covers its worn steps and balustrade. Peeling paint reveals layers of faded colour on the walls, marking time.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Stairs Landing
Series: Terminus Hotel
Catalogue: THO-039
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
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
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

A landing on the staircase at the Terminus Hotel sits midway between the ground-floor bar and the upstairs accommodation rooms, the timber treads turning at a right angle around a central post. The handrail is polished timber, the spindles below it cast-iron in a simple pattern. The wall behind the landing is wallpapered in a faded floral print that climbs the full height of the stair. A small window in the wall above the landing admits the late-afternoon light from the John Street side of the building. The carpet on the landing is worn through to the underlay at the centre, where decades of foot traffic passed.

The visible building is the 1917 Tooth and Co. demolition and rebuild, undertaken to add accommodation upstairs as required by NSW licensing reform of the period. The staircase and its landing date from that rebuild. Pub patrons used the stair to reach the upstairs accommodation rooms; the publican's family and long-term guests used it daily across the working life of the pub. The pub closed in 1983 and the stair stopped carrying its usual foot traffic. The 2018 restoration kept the staircase in place as part of the heritage fit-out. The landing in this photograph is essentially as it was during the 33-year closure, made in 2016, two years before the building reopened.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A timber dresser sits against the far wall of a landing inside the Terminus Hotel. Six drawers, handles still intact, marked with graffiti scratched into the wood. The carpet is thick with grit. Plaster blisters and peels where damp has worked through from behind. Light enters from the left, throwing long shadows from the stairwell balustrade across the floor. The wall above carries white spray paint. Dust coats every surface.

Brett Patman

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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