Why the Yellow Bricks?

The yellow bricks used as a background for our website are taken from a photograph of the wall of the building in the back.

The yellow bricks come from a special clay called kaolin clay, which was mined by the Blandford Brick and Tile Company, just opposite what is now Kaolin Road on Main Street. Kaolin clay is full of aluminum silicate, also called kaolinite, which as you can see from this picture of a kaolinite rock is a buff-yellow color. Kaolinite can also be white or grey, but the stuff here in Blandford is yellow.

The clay was taken down to Russell, where it was formed and baked into bricks. These bricks were used all over the area for a while. The whole library is made of these special Blandford bricks.

In fact, there is another library nearby that was also constructed of these same yellow bricks of Blandford clay. Can you guess where? (Hint: it's due south of here!)