🧱 The Bricklayers Who Built a Music School (But Couldn’t Carry a Tune)

Royal College of Music, South Kensington – Built 1894

You know who didn’t play the violin?

The bricklayers who built this beast.

🎩 Victorian Fancy? Nah, Bricklayer Graft.

Behind all that “posh architecture” was a crew of 50+ brickies, slapping down bricks before most people finished their tea.

3 million bricks

No cement mixers

No laser levels

Just trowels, lime mortar, and a lot of back pain.

🧱 Bricklayers Did That.

Every arch, every tower, every bit of red and buff patterning?

Yeah — that wasn’t drawn on. That was hand-laid, course by course, by blokes who probably went to the pub after.

🎶 Built for Music. Powered by Masons.

They built it so others could play piano under a chandelier.

Meanwhile, they were laying bricks in fog, frost, and soot.

Built to last. Laid by legends.

Respect the hands that built London.

#london