Narrow terrace streets of sand stock brick with iron lace balconies, and the closed pub The Wolverine used as a Yukon bar.
What Surry Hills looks like
Two storey terrace rows line in sand stock brick, iron lace verandah balconies stacked one above the other over narrow footpaths and kerbside plane trees. Behind each row a laneway barely wide enough for a garbage truck runs the length of the block, doors and iron gates opening straight onto the brick paving.
on is older and plainer, a symmetrical Georgian brick house from the 1830s with ground floor verandahs on paired columns, now offices behind its iron fence. Three doors along, a row of narrower Victorian terrace cottages keeps the same sand stock brick under a corrugated steel roof.
Red brick warehouse fronts line , arched window heads and a cornice running the length of the block. The ground floor is offices now, with a real estate banner for new apartments taped across part of the glass.
A corner pub on has a datestone reading 1879 on its parapet, farther down the block from awning shaded shopfronts that include a Japanese restaurant and a grocer. On Bourke Street at a second corner pub stands shuttered, its name still lettered above a tiled ground floor and taped over windows. 's own warehouse era building now holds a small cinema, its brick front unchanged from the street.
Shot in Surry Hills
For The Wolverine, 2013, the production used the interior of the closed Hopetoun Hotel as the Yukon bar. Logan confronts the man who left a wounded bear to die there. A few streets away on Brisbane Street, storefronts were redressed with Japanese signage for a Tokyo street scene, with the Nakagin Capsule Tower added digitally onto a building already standing there.
The Wolverine, 2013
The Hopetoun Hotel
Played the Yukon bar, Yukon, Canada, present day
The pub closed as a live music venue in 2009 and has stood empty since, graffiti tags now across its upper windows. The production dressed the interior as the Yukon bar, using the real corner at Bourke Street and Fitzroy Street for the exterior. Street View
The cast iron galleries stacked over narrow terrace lots give the French Quarter a similar silhouette to Surry Hills, especially where two storey buildings meet the footpath directly. Streets like Royal Street and Dauphine Street repeat the same iron pattern block to block. New Orleans favours shutters and single family townhouses rather than attached terrace rows. Its ironwork often runs in full balcony galleries rather than the shallower Sydney verandah, so a close shot needs the right block. Try searching cast iron terrace galleries now.
Fitzroy keeps the same two storey terrace form with iron lace verandahs stacked one above the other, built in the same run of decades as Surry Hills. Narrow laneways run behind these blocks too, wide enough for a cart but not much else. Melbourne's terraces often sit on wider allotments with front gardens, and bluestone paving reads differently to Sydney's asphalt in a low wide shot. Try searching iron lace terrace verandahs now.
Decorative verandah ironwork from the same decades survives on Ponsonby's timber villas, at a softer, less dense domestic scale than Surry Hills. Most stand freestanding rather than attached, so a tight frame along a fence line reads closer than a wide one. Weatherboard cladding and steeper roof pitches are the giveaway in anything wider than a close shot, along with more generous front gardens. Try searching villa verandah ironwork now.
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