Brunel Point, by Rodney Ashworth

An original short story extract set in the twentieth century.

Mr Bellamy had been caretaker of Brunel Point since the council opened it in 1962, and he still called it the new block, though the concrete had long since streaked grey and the stairwell windows had stopped opening. He lived in the ground-floor flat by the bin chutes, with a brass plate on the door that he polished on Sundays. Every morning he climbed the stairs to the twenty-first floor and walked all the way down again, checking each landing for broken bulbs and writing in a notebook kept in his top pocket. He mopped the entrance hall twice a day and put up a sign asking residents to wipe their feet, which most of them ignored. He kept a spare key to every flat, labelled in his own careful writing, in a cabinet that only he could open. Children who chalked on the walls were made to scrub it off while he stood over them with a bucket, but on Bonfire Night he let the same children use his shed to store their guy so it stayed dry.

List five things you learn about Mr Bellamy in this extract.