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  • STORY OF LUCKYLAND ESTATE (UDAPUSSELLAWA, CEYLON)

    STORY OF LUCKYLAND ESTATE (UDAPUSSELLAWA, CEYLON)

    Michael Charnaud (Manager of Luckyland 1960 - 1964) (2023)

    Luckyland was created initially by Fred Whittall a scion of the great British/Turkish mercantile family. The Whittalls had in the mid-19th Century already opened branches in Colombo and Calcutta and Fred Whittall as a young man was sent out as part of the family Agency business. Read More

  • EARLY DAYS AT DILMAH TEA

    EARLY DAYS AT DILMAH TEA

    David Colin-Thomé (2023)

    In 1979, straight out of school and heading for my first job interview, I walked up a narrow stairway of a dingy building in the heart of Colombo. Entering the office, I vividly recall the claustrophobic conditions as a cluttering of assorted furniture and about thirty people crammed into an area no more than 3,000 square feet. Read More

  • MERRILL J. FERNANDO: THE PASSING OF AN ICON

    MERRILL J. FERNANDO: THE PASSING OF AN ICON

    Anura Gunasekera (2023)

    Merrill J. Fernando, the founder of “Dilmah” and the elder statesman of Ceylon Tea, passed away on 20 July, after a seven-decade commitment to the tea trade. As a passionate Read More

  • GOD’S TEAMAKER - ‘THE STORY OF CEYLON TEAMAKER MERRILL J. FERNANDO’

    GOD’S TEAMAKER - ‘THE STORY OF CEYLON TEAMAKER MERRILL J. FERNANDO’

    Rohan Pethiyagoda (2023)

    Among the first things I had to do following my appointment as chairman of the Sri Lanka Tea Board was be briefed by tea-sector insiders on how to craft my dealings with the captains of the industry. Among those captains was Merrill J. Fernando, whom I had never met. Read More

  • Ceylonese planters also perished at gallipoli

    Ceylonese planters also perished at gallipoli

    George Braine (2023)

    My sister and I were at the Beach Cemetery in Gallipoli in 2015, where 285 British Commonwealth troops are buried. Our Turkish guide was listing the countries from where the fallen were from, and Ceylon was not mentioned. Read More

  • Elmo Ralston Bennet Tissera - 18th Death Anniversary

    Elmo Ralston Bennet Tissera - 18th Death Anniversary

    Upali Horagoda (2023)

    Ralston, the eldest son of George Hugh Ralston Tissera, came from a long line of planting stock. His father was one of the first Sri Lankans to break into the exclusive planting fraternity and retired in 1950 from Fernlands estate in Pundaluoya. Read More

  • Tillicoultry Tea Estate 1965

    Tillicoultry Tea Estate 1965

    Gillian van biljon (née Ferguson Daughter of Peter and Honor Ferguson) (2023)

    It has been my lifelong dream to revisit the beautiful country of my birth and more importantly see, in person, the estate bungalow. I have kept some treasured photos safe in the event that I would be able to fulfil this dream. Read More

  • My Second Heart by Vicki Blaze - A Short Review

    My Second Heart by Vicki Blaze - A Short Review

    Monte Holsinger (2023)

    I had for some time known that Vicki Vanden Driesen was writing a book about her early life in Sri Lanka, and I looked forward to reading the book with a great deal of interest, because I could relate to some of the content of the book. Read More

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