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  • . Commented on Kalutara and its Pioneer Rubber Planters

    One of my Bowman relatives invented a special 'gadjet' for gathering the rubber 'milk' We used to make rubber balls with the rubber 'threads" 'we found.around these containers At our plantation near Baddegama the wanderoo were also interested in the rubber trees and threw down the seeds. ! We used to collect. I was naughtly and made hand imprints in a tray full of white rubber milk/ The rubber tree another 'gift' from S.America

    April 15,2024 05:32pm

  • . Commented on Radella

    Keith Paul, then manager of Radella Estate, and a guest in the lovely manager's bungalow garden (in the late sixties?).

    April 15,2024 04:16am

  • . Commented on Radella

    Ronnie Lushington was manager of Radella in 1952 when I was creeping on Glenlyon, Agrapatana. He went to Dewalakande as manager having handed-over to Reid-Wilson..

    April 15,2024 03:46am

  • . Commented on Kalupahani

    I am curious to find out who the listed know "wirekoon" is?

    April 13,2024 05:01am

  • . Commented on Oonankande

    Sadly Oonankanda is no more .Even the bungalow has been demolished

    April 07,2024 06:17pm

  • . Commented on Castlereagh

    this is simply not true

    April 05,2024 01:36am

  • . Commented on A Day in the Life of a Planter

    Well written Anura with absolute facts and details from creeping to retirement. What great times we had as Planters in the good old days. Planting and the training made us what we achieved in life like no other profession. Great write up brings back great memmories of our planting carrieres.

    April 02,2024 07:04am

  • . Commented on Hindagalla Group

    Call me

    March 19,2024 02:08pm

  • . Commented on A Brief History of Henfold Estate

    Sally along with her brother's Patrick & Rory were childhood friends of mine & would visit then very reguarly, as my Mother & Mrs Moore very good friends. I lived at the TRI and last saw Sally in June 1967 , when we left the TRI to go to West Africa. I think her parents (Geoff & Kathleen (Kath) retired to Devon, around Tiverton & last saw them all (except Sally) in the early to mid 1970's. If you're still in contact with her & her brothers, please send them my regards. Thank you

    March 17,2024 10:06am

  • . Commented on A Brief History of Henfold Estate

    Are you sure it was not Geoff Moore? He and his wife Cath along with their children, Patrick, Sally-Anne and Rory I believe , occupied the estate during that time. It was an estate I use to visite very frequently as a child, when my late father was a Senior Research Agronomist (Clive Foster-Barham) working at the TRI a short distance way at St.Coombs from 1959 to June 1967. As a young boy, Geoff had fallen out with his family, ran away to sea and duly emded up at Henfold. He retired in the early 1970's to East Devon.

    March 17,2024 09:32am

  • . Commented on Dewalakande

    I thought I had commented here some time ago on the fact that Dewalakande was a rubber property posted on a tea website but I cannot see it now. Hence, I will repeat now what I wrote before. Dewalakande and Dunedin belonged to The Ceylon Tea Plantions Co., Ltd. and Troy belonged to The Ceylon Proprietary Tea Estates Co., Ltd. and the three units were run, from Dewalakande, as group totalling some 1750 cultivated acres.

    March 15,2024 03:48am

  • . 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

    my grand father !

    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