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  • MY EXPERIENCES IN TEA & RUBBER PLANTATION MANAGEMENT IN CEYLON 1952 - 1969

    MY EXPERIENCES IN TEA & RUBBER PLANTATION MANAGEMENT IN CEYLON 1952 - 1969

    Ian Gardner (2010)

    I attempt to write this account as it happened and from my point of view at the time, making minimal commentary from my current point of view at the age of seventy. I hope I have remembered the failures and lapses as well as the successes. When I was in High School I remember saying to myself or to a friend, 'I will never be a rickshaw-puller. Read More

  • THE HISTORY OF THE NUWARA ELIYA TEA ESTATES COMPANY 1870s – 1972

    THE HISTORY OF THE NUWARA ELIYA TEA ESTATES COMPANY 1870s – 1972

    Ian Gardner (2009)

    The factory at the Hethersett tea plantation played an important part in the development of Sri Lanka’s tea industry, and in helping Pure Ceylon Tea to become renowned as the world’s favourite beverage.Tea from the Hethersett factory was the first to fetch the highest price in the world for silver tip tea from Ceylon. Read More

  • THE TEA FACTORY – THE UNIQUE THEME HOTEL

    THE TEA FACTORY – THE UNIQUE THEME HOTEL

    Ian Gardner (2005)

    Aitken Spence & Co. (AS) had been involved in tea/rubber plantations for well over 100 years as an Agency House. However, plantations were nationalised in the early seventies and the estate agency business came to an abrupt end. Fortunately, Aitken Spence was in Shipping and Insurance and had by then diversified Read More