We arrived at the Brickfields and there we were given our full instructions as to what we had to do and went through the usual performance of being fully equipped with all the necessary equipments of war before we went in.
I propose to go down to the brickfields this morning as that is about the liveliest spot in Mafeking, though I fancy very little of it will go a long way.
I went down to the brickfields to the advanced trenches; down there both parties had agreed not to shoot, and exchanged tobacco for peach brandy, &c.
What attacking there was was in the brickfields and was done by us, but after a fitful splutter of musketry for an hour things quieted down.
I went down to the brickfields to see Captain Brown, Cape Police, who is in charge and was in charge when he occupied the Boer advanced trench.
I went down to the brickfields this morning and met Captain Fitzclarence and Captain Williams; things were pretty quiet down there in the morning, though they livened up again shortly afterwards.
This morning Smitheman went to the brickfieldswith the Colonel and was shot at a bit.
Strolling down to town in the evening, I assumed that their snipers were too much occupied with our people in the brickfields to bother about me.
They were shelling the brickfields to-day, but were otherwise quiet.
Yesterday we had a heavy thunderstorm, and the first flash of lightening exploded one of our mines in front of the brickfields simultaneously with the thunderclap.
The brickfieldsare now garrisoned by the Cape Police and Cape Boys under Captain Brown and Lieutenants Murray and Currie.
But we wondered, as the day grew brighter and two hours' firing had passed, what would be the end, considering ourselves fortunate that the enemy made no attempt to rush any one of the brickfields in his command.
The main occupation of the garrison just now is to speculate upon the progress of the work of trench-building, which is being rapidly pushed forward in the brickfields upon the south-eastern face of the town.
Out here in these brickfields we appear to be upon the edge of a new world, with the limits of the old one just below.
Cover was scarce, and the few ruins of brickfields and sugar refineries which dotted the landscape had also been garrisoned by the enemy as centres of resistance, designed to break up and dislocate any general attack.
St. Denis and the brickfields fell to us during this period.
And the air seemed always grey, and the smoke from the brickfields was grey.
The brickfields lay to the south of Sydney, and when after a hot wind from the west or north-west, the wind went round to the south, it was accompanied by great clouds of dust, brought up from the brickfields.
The brickfields have long since vanished, and with them the name to which they gave rise, but the wind continues to raise clouds of dust as of old under its modern name of `Southerly Burster.
These brickfields have long been a thing of the past, surviving only in "Brickfield Hill," the hilly part of George Street, between the Cathedral and the Railway Station.
But the details of the plan at Brickfields would make a long story within a story; we may have further glimpses of it, on beyond; we must not leave our friends now standing in the street.
Retaliation soon followed; on the Brickfields again, a choice of objective which was quite inexplicable.
Infantry Brigade moves to Brickfieldsunder orders of the 4th Australian Division.
On this day the 8th Brigade moved back to the Brickfields at Albert, and the 7th to Tara Hill; and the 9th Brigade took over their lines.
The task of the Irish was to retake positions in the brickfields captured by the Germans from the Coldstream Guards.
And then hard on the gasworks had come the railway and cheap coal; there was a wild outbreak of brickfields upon the claylands to the east, and the Great Growth had begun in earnest.
Several chapels of zinc and iron appeared, and also a white new church in commercial Gothic upon the common, and another of red brick in the residential district out beyond the brickfields towards Chessington.
I was instead filled with amazement that any enlightened and Christian men and women could consider this a refuge for destitution, and wonder at a preference for brickfields and liberty.
An ugly strike in the Latchford brickfields against nonunion labour was giving the magistrates of the country a good deal of anxiety.
The village where you are going to speak has some rowdy elements--drawn from thebrickfields near it.
Felix had not failed to make enemies in the Brickfields by his youthful intolerance of idleness, beggary, and drunkenness.
The sultry, fervid days of August came; and if possible the narrow thoroughfares of the Brickfields seemed more wretched than in the winter.
On June the first we relieved the 9th King's Liverpools from trenches at the brickfields at Quinchy.
The report was circulated that the enemy had broken through on the right of La Bassee canal, at the brickfields at Quinchy.
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