Stonecourt

Stonecourt is the biggest working yard in Cambridge, a deafening complex where machine-stone is dressed, squared and first tested. It employs more people than any other yard, and its workers carry pale dust and, after twenty years, deafness. The Stonecourt Brotherhood governs its apprenticeships and lifting crews. Eastern workings there opened two cavities, and Doctor Severin Beaumont's experimental chambers are said to have lain beneath it.