brickfields

I must take a turn amongst the brickfields and snuff up the smoke; and, perhaps tomorrow shall feel the return of my usual spirits, or more.

Letter 55 2009

He slept under archways, and in brickfields — anywhere, where there was some warmth or shelter from the cold and rain.

Sketches by Boz 2007

We had the most enchanting walk together through the brickfields.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

He employs on his estate — in mines, brickfields, and plantations — over four thousand men.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

He would get up, and go out down to the brickfields.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

University on Friday afternoon on the topic "Creating an enabling environment for industrial development in Zimbabwe" and toured the eastern highlands brickfields and a branch of the Tanganda tea company.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

Cape Town's list of manufactories in 1859 included a total of fifty-six brickfields, limekilns, foundries, breweries, corn and snuff mills, soap, candle, fish-curing and printing establishments.

Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Ch.1 Ray Esther 1969

Krause pointed out that some of the colour bars were absolute and applied to machinery in all kinds of undertakings, including mills, potteries and brickfields.

Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 13 Ray Esther 1969

Their brickfields worked twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to try to meet the demand for building materials.

When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

It is evident that the best method of firing bricks is to place them in permanent kilns, but although such kilns were used by the Romans some 2000 years ago, the older method of firing in "clamps" is still employed in the smaller brickfields, in every country where bricks are made.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various