Chipping brick

When I went to Bellefontaine in 1963 between the gate house and the main house were the stables, complete with upstairs living quarters for the head groom and his family. The stable was a large brick building. It was knocked down at the beginning of the 1964 school year. The fathers had decided to build a large utility building in the back. For months several of us, including Hugh Carty the son of a bricklayer, would go out to the pile of old bricks from the stable and spend the entire work period chipping mortar off the bricks. These reclaimed bricks were used to make the back wall of the utility building which is still standing today.