An Impact Press book
Published: 1 February 2018
ISBN: 978-1-925384-35-2
ISBN ePUB: 978-1-925384-36-9
Format: Paperback
AU: $32.99
eBook: $9.99
Categories: Australian History
About the Author
Dr Shirley Fitzgerald has taught history at universities and worked as a community historian. As a City Historian for the City of Sydney until 2009 she delivered Sydney's history through books, media presentations and inscribed it on the pavements of the inner city.
Terminus
The pub that Sydney forgot
By Shirley Fitzgerald
A fascinating look at the changing personality and colourful characters of the Terminus Hotel in Pyrmont – once regarded as the toughest pub in Sydney – to commemorate its reopening after standing abandoned for thirty years.
For over thirty years the Terminus Hotel had stoof dilapidated and abandoned on the corner of Harris and John Streets in Pyrmont - shrouded in mystery and a heavy coat of ivy, and the memories of its publicans and customers long faded.
Told with fascinating insight and rich detail, historian and author Shirley Fitzgerald uncovers for the first time the stories, secrets and long-forgotten characters from what was once regarded as the toughest pub in Sydney - and today has been brought back to life and reopened as a heritage gastropub for locals and visitors alike.
First built in 1863, the Terminus evolved from local meeting place to workers pub, through very different liquor laws that allowed children to be served, and finally to its last trading years in the 1970s and 80s, where the clientele comprised of hardened merchant seamen and wharfies, biker gangs and curious punters who were served by topless, tattooed barmaids and entertained by rock bands.
Revealing its changing personality through photographs and interviews, Terminus: The Pub that Sydney Forgot offers a beautiful and captivating social history of Pyrmont through the lens of one pub, now open for the enjoyment of a new generation of patrons to make their own history.