History of Ceylon Tea

. Commented on A Grandmother's Letter to her Grandson

ආයුබෝවන් !

March 13,2024 06:18am

. Commented on A Grandmother's Letter to her Grandson

Group of coombe brothers in poonagala.

March 12,2024 06:28am

. Commented on A Grandmother's Letter to her Grandson

Wonderful article ..

March 12,2024 06:24am

. Commented on D.D. Dickson.

Wondering if this is the DD Dickson who was a traveller and visited various parts of India. I am particularly interested in his journey to Kashmir and the Punjab in 1901.

March 06,2024 02:17pm

. Commented on C. H. Norris Jones

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February 06,2024 10:44pm

. Commented on Kuttapitiya

My Father Late A.A. Selliah was the Kuttapitiya Estae Medical Suprintendant in charge of the entire Estate employees. We were kids and spend our school holidays in the estate biungalow, What a lovely tea and rubber estate, with a beautiful water fall.

February 04,2024 02:21am

. Commented on Alton

And Rohan Perera completed his creeping on Alton having started on Radella!

February 01,2024 07:01am

. Commented on Scottish Tea & Lands Company Limited 1962-1972

Excellent reading and I have met most people you mentioned in your planting carrier, as I too commenced creeping in Ampittiyakanda in Bandarawela in 1966..

February 01,2024 06:49am

. Commented on Scottish Tea & Lands Company Limited 1962-1972

I was a very close friend of Manfreds while in Haputale. Came to America and visited me in Las Vegas. We met our future wives as mentioned by him at the Bandarawela tennis club. My wife was a Brtish Engineers daughter. We now all live in America. Manfred had a hart attack and in a bad way in Australia. His daughter is attending to him in Hospital

February 01,2024 03:07am

. Commented on Scottish Tea & Lands Company Limited 1962-1972

DearManfred

February 01,2024 12:22am

. Commented on Kalutara and its Pioneer Rubber Planters

Very valuable information, I knew some who were employed in the Meddegedara estate

January 30,2024 02:00pm

. Commented on Clement Ross Berenger

My parents befriended Clarie and Millie his wife and as a child growing up I would stay at their house in Moneragla. I went to the Hill School…

January 21,2024 02:16pm

. Commented on Amanadowa

My father Anthony Wills was a plantation manager in 1963. He took this photo of the bungalow at Amanadowa.

January 19,2024 02:28am

. Commented on Halgolla Group

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January 18,2024 07:14am

. Commented on Ayurveda expert on why you should avoid having tea with jaggery

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January 16,2024 04:56pm

. Commented on Logie

Yasa Ratnayake was sutd from 1974 till 1976 on Logie over looking Lamilere

January 12,2024 01:11am

. Commented on RICHARD WYNELL-MAYOW: 1922-2005

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January 09,2024 11:17am

. Commented on Pallaradella

C.E.Picken is most likely to be the father of Lindsey Picken, who retired from planting from Holyrood, Talawakelle, aged 55* years c.1966. and Neville Picken, similarly from Ingoya, in 1960 also probably aged 55* years.

January 08,2024 07:08am

. Commented on Kenmare

Masefield, G. H.,1898 - 1940; a planter in the Ceylon Tea Plantations Co., Pty. Ltd. and later Chairman of the Board in London. He visited the company's estates in 1953 and 1958. In 1953 he came to meet me on Carlabeck and, at one point, said that we were better paid than he was at our age, to which I responded by asking him how much a bottle of whiskey had cost him then and he, having thought a bit, replied, "Oh! about five rupees!" and I responded with the fact that it was costing me Rs 75 a bottle. In 1958, when he visited Holyrood and I was SD there, I went to "have drinks" with him at the manager's bungalow. He was then 83 y.o. and showing it physically and mentally.

December 29,2023 01:00am