Premium Content A CENTURY-old bricklaying history will come to an end next week when Jeff Carr retires. The trade has been a staple of the Carr family in Rockhampton for nearly 100 years; Jeff has contributed 51 of those and will finish up next Friday. I was born in Rockhampton, he said. 1955. Lived here all my life. Bricklaying was like a bit of a family tradition really. The Carr name has been laying bricks in Rockhampton since I think 1923. That all comes to an end next week. I m the last of the line, laying bricks anyway. But Jeff does not mind that one part of his family s legacy has reached a terminus.