172Asher, Old & Jones, solicitors, letter to the general manager, 6 July 1955, Tooth & Co. papers, N60/7434.
173Kirkby, D. ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer … : Licensing Laws, Liquor Trading and the Maxwell Royal Commission in NSW, 1951–54’, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/ANZLawHisteJl/2005/9.pdf, accessed online 15 June 2017.
174Notes on the Tooth & Co. ‘Yellow Card’ for the Terminus, 1949–59.
175Ron O’Brien, Canberra, conversation with author, 3 June 2017.
176Jarratt, P., Liquor Merchants Association of Australia centenary history, 1997, pp. 73, 74.
17718 February, 1958, Tooth & Co. papers, N60/2634.
178Stubbs, B. J., ‘Schooner Wars’, Australian Brews News, 12 January 2011, https://www.brewsnews.com.au/2011/01/17/schooner-wars/, accessed online 14 September 2017.
179Tooth’s city office memo concerning Bourne’s request for reduced weekly rent payment, 8 June 1967, Tooth & Co. papers, N60/2635.
18030 April 1958, Tooth & Co. papers, N60/2634.
181Darcy Hassett, conversation with author, 6 June 2017.
182Ron O’Brien, Canberra, conversation with author, 3 June 2017.
183The Sun and The Newcastle Sun, 20 May 1952.
184Marie Hassett, Marrickville, conversation with author, 30 May 2017.
185Ian Smalpage, architect, to Property Officer, 26 November 1956, Tooth & Co. papers N60/7434; application to the licensing court dated 9 June 1960; tender of R. A. Clay & Son for £5423.13.6, 13 October 1960, Tooth & Co. papers, N60/7435.
186John O’Brien, letter to city manager, July 1961, N60/2634.
187License transfer, John O’Brien to Nelson Richard Austin, Tooth & Co. papers, 5 February 1963, N60/2634: 12 July 1963, N60/2635.
188Reports of company ‘visitor’ to the Terminus, 7 August and 28 October 1963, Tooth & Co. papers N60/2634.
189Report, Bentley to general manager, 21 January 1964, Tooth & Co. papers, N60/2635.
190Various entries, January to April 1964, Tooth & Co. papers, N60/2635.
191Asher, Old & Jones, solicitors, to the general manager, lease transfer, 23 April 1964; lease renewal 20 July 1964, Tooth & Co. papers N60/7435.
192Marie Hassett, conversation with author, 29 May 2017.
193This and the following reminiscences, Darcy Hassett, conversation with the author, June 6, 2017.
194Jannice Kersh, conversation with author, 21 July 2017.
195Carol Twist, resident of Mount Street, conversation with author, 9 June 2017.
196Jannice Kersh, conversation with author, 19 July 2017.
197Darcy Hassett, conversation with author, 21 July 2017.
198Geoffrey Preston, conversation with author, 6 June 2017.
199John Regan, Queensland, email communication with the author, 18 June 2017.
200The railway cutting from Rozelle to Darling Harbour was opened in 1922. The land bridge over this line in Pyrmont was eventually built in 1992.
201From the late 1970s, CSR purchased Harvey, New and part of Bowman Streets as well as a playground in Harvey Streets. For details of CSR in Pyrmont see S. Fitzgerald & H. Golder, Pyrmont & Ultimo under siege, 2nd edition, Halstead Press, 2009, pp. 132–7.
202John Oakes’s talk presented to Australian Railway Historical Society, September 2013; www.arhsnsw.com.au/lunchclubnotes/1309dharbour.pdf, accessed online 15 September 2017.
203John Hutton, Glebe, conversation with author, 6 June 2017.
204The comparison has been extracted from Tooths Yellow Cards that list ‘Total Trade LRB’ – liquid refreshment beverage. Tooth & Co.’ also kept cards for the Royal Pacific and had access to its trade statistics because it supplied the hotel with small amounts of bottled beer. Therefore the figures are comparable between the two hotels.
205Report 3 February 1967, Tooth & Co. papers, N60/2635.
20619 January 1967, Tooth & Co. papers, N60/2635.
207A & Valerie Bourne to the general manager, 6 March 1969, Tooth & Co. papers, N60/2635.
208Memo initialled S.L.P. to Stanfield, 8 May 1967, Tooth & Co. papers, N60/2635.
209Confidential report on Mr. R. Collins, MO file, 26 February 1970, Tooth & Co. papers, N60/2635.
210Neate & Broomham, hotel brokers, inventory, Terminus Hotel, R. Baurm (mis-spelt Bourne) to R. Collins, Tooth & Co. papers, N60/7436.
211Confidential report on Mr. J. W. Combes, 19 February 1971, Tooth & Co. papers, N60/2635.
212Memo from W.V.S. to Fawkner, 28 June 1972, Tooth & Co. papers, N60/2635. Combes died in 1978 and is buried at Ourimbah. Death notice, The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 April 1978.
213Faulkner to City Manager, 28 June, 1972, Tooth & Co. Papers, N60/2635 Pt 2.
214Author’s conversation with Jennice Kersh, Pyrmont, July 2017.
215Barbara Martyn, ‘Vegetarian Family Outpaced Them All’ The Australian Women’s Weekly, 20 November 20 1968.
216An example of Shirley McElwaine’s healthy recipe column, The Australian Women’s Weekly, 19 February 1969, p. 65.
217Harvey, S. & Simpson, L., Brothers in arms: the inside story of two bikie gangs, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1989, 10th printing, pp. 209–10.
218Wells, B., ‘The Grandfather Who Wants to Run Around Australia’, The Australian Women’s Weekly, 15 October 1980, p. 27. The first man to run around Australia was Ron Grant in 1983, on a 13,383 km track.
219Shirley and daughter Kim McElwaine granted the author a long interview on 30 June 2017. Shirley remarried and uses a different surname, but she prefers to use the name McElwaine when talking about the Terminus. Her time there was complicated and she values the anonymity of no longer being Shirley McElwaine.
220Joanne McElwaine, Inverell, conversation with author, 15 August 2017.
221John Hutton, Glebe, conversation with author, 6 June 2017.
222Maggie Williams, Punchbowl, previously of Pyrmont Street, Pyrmont, conversation with author, 12 June 2017.
223Don Heep, Ballarat, conversation with author, 29 June 2017.
224Shirley McElwaine, interview with the author, 30 June 2017.
225George Markham, Newtown, conversation with author, 6 June 2017.
226Kim McElwaine, interview with author, 30 June 2017.
227Don Heep, Ballarat, conversation with author, 29 June 2017.
228Lyn Wallis, Melbourne, conversation with author, June 21, 2017.
229Don Heep, Ballarat, conversation with author, 29 June 2017.
230John Regan, Queensland, email communication with the author, 18 June 2017.
231Harvey, S. & Simpson, L., Brothers in arms: the inside story of two bikie gangs, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1989, 10th printing, pp. 160.
232Essam, P., I’ve finally found my hero: the story of the Sydney to Melbourne ultra-marathons (1983–1991), self-published, 2nd edition, 2002, p. 36. http://www.coolrunning.com.au/ultra/westfieldbook-v2.pdf , accessed online 15 September 2017.
233Harvey, S. & Simpson, L., Brothers in arms: the inside story of two bikie gangs, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1989, 10th printing, p. 249.
234Ann Abicht, conversation with author, 16 June, 2017.
235The general history of the area is based on S. Fitzgerald & H. Golder, Pyrmont & Ultimo: under siege, 2nd edition, Halstead Press, Ultimo, 2009. For lists of industries see M. Matthews, Pyrmont and Ultimo: a history, self-published, 1983.
236Burton, Craig & Australia Council & Uniting Church in Australia. Board for Social Responsibility 1993, Pyrmont Pieces Project: a report detailing the objectives, processes and outcomes of the “Pyrmont Pieces Project” conducted in 1992.
237King, M. & Cavadini, F., Concrete city, 1994. This examined the role of City West Development Corporation over the tensions created by the competing issues of community destruction and the imperatives of urban consolidation.
238Declaration of Independence, 23 August 1992, numerous newspaper articles, including The Telegraph, 9 August 1992: Open letter to the Prime Minister of Australia, Right Honourable Paul Keating, 22 August 1992.
/> 239www.ato.gov.au/General/Property/Property-used-in-running-a-business/Selling-commercial-premises/ accessed online 15 September 2017.
240McCauley, D., ‘Isaac and Susan Wakil, the Reclusive Property Moguls Behind Sydney’s Vacant Buildings’, news.com.au, 11 April 2016, accessed online 15 September 2017.
241A Supreme Court case found in favour of the City Council’s right to evict in 1983, but a change in the composition of the Council resulted in it taking no action. The houses were sold to the Housing Department in 1988, with the squatters in residence. The last squatter left in 1995.
242S. Fitzgerald, ‘Squatting in Pyrmont’, accessed online 15 September 2017.
243Arthur Dignam, resident, Mount Street (now Harris Street), conversation with the author, 14 July, 2017.
244Mickie Quick, conversation with the author, 17 June, 2017.
245Davies, A., ‘Wakil Family Property Sell-off: $200m Raised For Charitable Foundation’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 December 2014.
246SquatSpace was established by a group of artists involved in the Broadway Squat when people occupied vacant housing owned by South Sydney Council for almost a year in 2000. It is an ongoing organisation.
247Dale D., ‘A World At Her Table’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 December 1999.
248The so-called schoolmasters house, set back from Harris Street and numbered 65A had been used by CSR for many years.
249City of Sydney Archives 923/01/262: Pyrmont Wakil Property, 14–20 Mount Street. This file contains a residents’ petition and a detailed historical summary of negotiations between Lord Mayor Sartor and Minister Robert Webster between 1991 and 1993.
250Cummins, C., ‘Sydney’s Historic Terminus Hotel sells for $5 million’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 April 2016; www.realestateview.com.au/property-360/property/61-harris-street-pyrmont-nsw-2009, accessed online 15 September 2017.
251March 2017, accessed online 15 June 2017.
252Craze, K., www.news.com, 26 April 2016, accessed online 4 June 2017.
253NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) 1994 report into the NSW Police Service, relationship between police and criminals; the 1997 Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service Corruption (the Wood Royal Commission).
254For a general coverage of hotels in these decades, refer to D. Kirkby, T. Luckins and C. McConville, The Australian pub, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2010.
255NSW Heritage database No 2424412, listed on Sydney LEP (Local Environment Plan) 16 December 2012.
256David Mathlin, interview with author, 31 August 2017.
257Doyle, P., Crooks like us, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney 2009, p. 159.
258Ron Harvey, who lived in Jones Street in the 1940s, remembering Ray Blissett who worked in the area for many years, in Margaret Park, The doors were always open: recollections of Pyrmont and Ultimo, City West development Corporation, 1997, p. 51.
259Doyle, P., Crooks like us, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney. 2009, pp. 17, 165, 227.
260John (Richard) McCullough, Central Coast, conversation with author, 17 June 2017.
261McClymont, K., ‘Slipping the Net: the Life and Crimes of Mr. Big’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 May 2005.
This early map shows a cluster of Pyrmont’s first houses between Harris Street and Mount Street. The area’s first public house, the Pyrmont Hotel, stands on the site of the present Terminus Hotel and the Presbyterian chapel is on the un-named Mount Street. Francis Webb Shields, 1844, City of Sydney Archives, Historical Atlas of Sydney, CRS 1155.
By the time Edward Flood put this land up for auction in July 1841 the original allotments were being sold on as smaller building blocks. The land on the corner of Harris and John Streets had already been sold a few months earlier and possibly the Pyrmont Hotel was being constructed. It was licensed at the end of that year. Detail from 1841 plan of Flood’s Pyrmont lots to be auctioned on 19 July, 1841, by Mr. Stubbs. Second portion of Flood’s “Pyrmont” XXXVII lots to be sold by auction the 19th July/41. State Library NSW, FL3711441.
The Australasian Steam Navigation Company’s patent slip. Watercolour, Frederick Garling, c. 1855, SL NSW, FL3162049.
The public school in John Street next to the Terminus Hotel opened in 1884 with room for 1300 children. It was closed fifty years later for lack of pupils. It was used for a number of other purposes and today is a community centre for a Pyrmont population that is again growing. Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Object No.85/1285-647.
In 1896 the Coopers Arms was greatly enlarged. It had lost its license and the new hotel was briefly called the Pleasanton before settling on the name Terminus in 1899. The new 1896 sections are coloured while the black and white sections indicate the original 1863 Coopers Arms section. This plan allows comparison with later twentieth century plans and helps to establish that some of the present fabric of the hotel dates back to the 1860s. State Records NSW, AO Plan No 62981.
The Colonial Sugar Refinery (CSR) at the foot of Harris Street, Pyrmont. This industrial scene is dotted with hotels. Heading up the hill, there is the Pyrmont Arms on the left, the Royal Pacific on the right, and the Terminus next to John Street School. Noel Butlin Archives Centre, CSR records 171-828.
Pyrmont tram ‘R1’ 2031 standing in John Street on 28 June 1953, the day after the tram stopped running to the terminus at Pyrmont. It is on an ‘after the last day tour’, draped in black mourning ribbons and a commemorative wreath. Tram aficionados have their cameras at the ready to capture the moment. Photograph by Noel Reed, reproduced with his permission, http://tdu.to/29975.att.
Tooth & Co. letterhead, 1930s, with a heroic representation of their brewery. The brewery has long gone, but the central arched gateway remains, a piece of ‘heritage’ in the Central Park development on Broadway, Chippendale.
The Terminus Hotel in 1930. Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Tooth & Co. papers, N60-YC-1930.
John Alexander was born in 1930 and lived on Harris Street until 1958. He worked at the CSR and according to his son Mark he carried this bottle opener on his key ring for as long as anyone could remember, ‘until the day he died’. The opener is of 1920s–1930s vintage, and was probably made for publican Lionel Dempsey to promote the pub.
Tooths pubs all displayed advertising on posters and mirrors. This one dates from the mid-twentieth century. Unknown artist, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Object No.86/3443.
Detail of the Terminus, with cat. There used to be plenty of these in the district where stockpiles of sugar and associated vermin kept them busy. Watercolour, 2016, owned by Liz and Harold Adolph of Pyrmont, reproduced with permission of the artist, Dee Peebles.
Girls Wanted, 1980s style and ‘It may occur to you and me that there’s much more to drinking …’ Flyers courtesy of McElwaine family.
‘The Terminus and the Point’. In the background is the new Glebe Island Bridge (Anzac Bridge). Oil on canvas, 2011, reproduced with kind permission of the artist, Jane Bennett.
Nancy Borlase painted ‘Three Chimneys’ in 1952. The building on the left was Peter Brennan’s original Coopers Arms opened in 1845 and demolished in the 1970s for a carpark next to the old woolstore of Shute Bell Badgery Lumby, now known as 100 Harris Street. At the rear the huge smoke stacks of the electricity powerhouse loomed over the neighbourhood. Today the Star Casino occupies the powerhouse site. Oil on board, reproduced by kind permission of Susanna Short.
This noticeboard outside the Terminus was used by locals to advertise events long after the pub had closed its doors in 1983. Vanessa Berry, Mirror Sydney, https://mirrorsydney.wordpress.com.
The unoccupied Terminus with its overgrown ivy shrouding the upstairs balcony. Watercolour, 2016, owned by Liz and Harold Adolphe of Pyrmont, reproduced with permission of the artist, Dee Peebles.
Shirley McElwaine, wife of the last publican, Bob McElwaine, with David Mathlin, one of the new owners of the Terminus, in 2016. The McElwaines left the pub in 1983 and this photograph, taken just before restoration work commenced in
2016, shows how well the building had survived being locked up and disused for 33 years. Photograph courtesy of Kim McElwaine.
Old awning, old paint, new window. Photograph courtesy of Lara Horsted, November 2017.
The old awning has gone, paintwork has been stripped to reveal brickwork in excellent condition and the parapet has been restored. Photograph courtesy of Paul Gye.
The flag flying on the parapet is a version of an early Sydney flag. The ship in the corner symbolises a maritime city, and Pyrmont was for many decades a place of ships. Photograph courtesy of Trish Curotta.
Putting the final touches to the main bar area. As had happened so many times before, a new bar top is being installed. Photograph courtesy of Alison Seccombe.
Peloton Constructions undertook the restoration of the hotel. This is their mock up, showing the open dining area above what was once the hotel’s garage on John Street.
THE FOLLOWING 2016 PHOTO ESSAY OF THE TERMINUS HOTEL DOCUMENTS THE EERIE STATE OF DISREPAIR BEFORE THE HOTEL UNDERWENT REFURBISHMENT.
Images and captions supplied by Brett Patman/Lost Collective.
NORTH FACADE.
The north side of the building. The top level above the awning has been almost entirely covered in a beautiful veil of ivy that has crept out of the beer garden. It’s a mesmerising feature of the building. People who pass by frequently stop to look in amazement at how far the creeper has progressed.
TOY COLLECTION.
There is some kind of mysterious portal at the rear of the hotel where children’s toys end up for eternity. The entrance to this portal just happens to be over the fence of the adjacent community centre.
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