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  • . Commented on RICHARD WYNELL-MAYOW: 1922-2005

    Mr Richard Wynell in village temple..

    February 19,2023 04:01pm

  • . Commented on Thotalagala Plantation House, a tea planter’s bungalow in South East Sri Lanka, lets you enjoy a vintage-style luxury stay

    Do you like something more about Sir George A Pilkington?

    February 19,2023 01:00pm

  • . Commented on A.P. Haskyns

    A great resource of information about the history of Ceylon Tea and the people involved in its development. One possible error is the spelling of A P Haskyns, who I believe is actually Arthur Phelips Hoskyns, a great uncle of mine. Arthur was born in 1856 and ,married Charlotte Lydia Mersservy at Forest Creek, Dimbula on July 26th 1888. Charlotte is in this register as Mrs A P Hoskyns and owned two plantations in her own right. It looks as if after they had married, they combined their three estates in to the Talawakelle Estate Company Ltd. Beyond that it is not easy to trace our family ownership but I have slides from a trip out to Ceylon ny my grandfather, who I beleive inherited shares and may have been a director of share holder of the Talawakelle Estate Co. I'm not sure of the date of their trip but it was likely that it was in the 1930's? The colonial gardens were of huge interest to my grandmother and she tried to recreate their splendor in her own garden in North Perrott, Somerset, England.

    February 19,2023 12:55pm

  • . Commented on Poonagala Group in 1895

    Mr Robert Gorton Coombe, Brother of Sir Pilkington

    February 19,2023 10:33am

  • . Commented on Poonagala Group in 1895

    Sir George A Pilkington and His Brother Mr: Robert Gorton Coombe

    February 19,2023 10:30am

  • . Commented on Poonagala Group in 1895

    Sir George A Pilkington and His Brother Mr: Robert Gorton Coombe

    February 19,2023 10:28am

  • . Commented on RICHARD WYNELL-MAYOW: 1922-2005

    Memories ....

    February 19,2023 09:32am

  • . Commented on RICHARD WYNELL-MAYOW: 1922-2005

    Interested ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ‘

    February 19,2023 09:17am

  • . Commented on Kalutara and its Pioneer Rubber Planters

    Clyde was a small estate. After I took over Ranjan Wijeratne added divisions of 3 estates to make it a little over 2000 acres. Became the highest net sale for crepe rubber and was sent on a tour of rubber estates in Indonesia whare the plantations were ove 5000 Acres and in a better condition than in Sri Lanka. The factories were huge with centrifuge rubber directly sent to manufaturers of tyres including Dunlop. With the

    February 17,2023 10:11pm

  • . Commented on Kalutara and its Pioneer Rubber Planters

    Thanks Ian. Cecil was my (and yours) classmate, the late Naomal Susil Dias's father.

    February 17,2023 09:47pm

  • . Commented on Kalutara and its Pioneer Rubber Planters

    Cecil Dias, who managed Sirikandura, was my cousin and my mother, brother and I spent a few days there with Cecil and Moni*, his wife, c.1940. The drive to the bungalow was long and steep, with many hairpin bends, and Cecil had erected humourous and topical illustrated line cartoons at many of the bends e.g. "One good turn deserves another!". Another memory was of the floors of the bungalow which were finished in beautifully trowelled and polished red cement. The bungalow overlooked, from quite a height, a part of the estate and Cecil had a loudspeaker at the end of the lawn playing music to those in the estate below.

    February 17,2023 09:39pm

  • . Commented on Poonagala Group in 1895

    เถ†เถบเท”เถถเทเท€เถฑเทŠ !

    February 17,2023 12:09pm

  • . Commented on Kalutara and its Pioneer Rubber Planters

    How satisfying to note that my piece has drawn the attention of two former planters from Yatadola, viz Richard Paine, and Brian Kent. Perhaps we should seek more information from them to write a fuller story on Yatadoal to supplement Michael Speers story.

    February 16,2023 10:58am

  • . Commented on Tales from the Thotum – the Dark Side

    I worked on Palmgarden in the mid 60's as an ast Suptd

    February 15,2023 12:00am

  • . Commented on Ernon

    Ha ha, 0 comments? What is wrong? ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

    February 13,2023 03:12pm

  • . Commented on Logie

    Would love some photos of the family and plantation, my grandfather Edward Lethbridge Shelton Agar was born in Kandy, Ceylon and also managed the plantation.

    February 12,2023 09:09am

  • . Commented on Mohan Ganapathy

    He had been in Drayton & Stonyclif

    February 11,2023 02:10pm

  • . Commented on Waltrim

    Deepest Impression

    February 11,2023 01:56pm

  • . Commented on Mowbray

    so happy to see the history of Mowbray in which my Grand fathers name is mentioned Pappu Retty.

    February 10,2023 12:12pm

  • . Commented on COLOMBO TRAMWAYS - DOWN MEMORY LANE

    My great grandmother was Ethel Boustead, brother of John Melvill (Jack) Boustead. One of his sons, Cedric I believe, drove a tram during the strike of 1929 and somebody threw a snake at him! Quite right!

    January 27,2023 11:23pm