Roland Lockhart was born in the Staff House in 1923.
The Staff house had a bathroom with sink and toilet on first floor. There was a washer and drier and water heater on west wall. There was a sink on east wall as of 2008.
The middle room on the first floor had a large table on the left, and it contained a refrigerator and book shelves on the back wall. A bureau an lamp were on the right wall.
The living room had a front door, fire place, couch, and two chairs. A bay window was next to front door.
The second floor had two bedrooms and a bathroom with tub/shower and toilet. One bedroom had twin beds and a bureau. The other narrow bedroom had room for one single bed. Ramon Bourque stayed in the narrow room, and the chefs stayed in the larger room. Kathy Dean remembers staying there when she was chef in the 1990s. Her father's chef house was on the wall for many years.
Narrow staircase goes to basement with earthen floor.
A 1000 gallon water tank held water for Thinkers Lodge, Lobster Factory, and Staff House.
Roland Cornelius Lockhart was born March 3, 1923 in the staff house. Originally, he believes the house was across the street on Water Street in the field that used to be the tennis court.
Later the family might have moved to Queen Street. Then they moved to corner of Church and Victoria Street.
Florence and Herbert were his parents. There were nine children. Roland was third. Herbert was a stevador on the pulp boats, and Florence was a housewife. Once Roland fell off the wharf, and a guy named Kelly Murray saw him flailing around in the water, and he rescued him.
When he was four years old, he was sent out to his grandmother's home on Ridge Street about 19 miles outside of Pugwash. He stayed there until he was 16 when he came back to take grade 11 at the Pugwash High School. Roland (in 1939 or 1940) was unfit for the army because of his varicose veins. He worked in Amherst airplane factory, where he was a fitter. Afterwards, he drove a taxi in Pugwash. Then he went to Hamilton, Ontario for 30 years. He was a foreman in the inspection department in a Die Cast Plant where they made white metal. Around 1983, Roland returned to Pugwash. He was retired. He married Thelma Allen who had two children from previous marriage and whose husband died in the war. Thelma worked in the Dining Hall a few summers after they were married. Roland and Thelma had one son name Roland. Thelma’s father was a lobster fisherman named Bertram Allen.