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  • Beyond Borders

    Beyond Borders

    Bernard VanCuylenburg (2020)

    This is the story about a family – a personal story which I wish to share with you. This family consisted of four brothers who lived in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Read More

  • The Boston Tea Party, 16 December 1773

    The Boston Tea Party, 16 December 1773

    In 1770, Lord North repealed four of the five Townshend Duties but retained the 3d tax on tea. The Tea Act of 1773 was intended to rescue the East India Company from its financial problems and provided that the Company might export tea... Read More

  • THE FIRST TEA ROLLER / DRIER

    THE FIRST TEA ROLLER / DRIER

    Sunil de Alwis (2020)

    Here is how the first tea roller cum drier was found. In 1974, Mr. Kumaravelu, a staff member attached to the Loolecondera Tea Factory indicated that he was aware of the existence... Read More

  • Relationship between Environmental Covariates and Ceylon Tea Cultivation in Sri Lanka

    Relationship between Environmental Covariates and Ceylon Tea Cultivation in Sri Lanka

    Sadeeka Layomi Jayasinghe, Lalit Kumar and Kamrul Hasan (2020)

    How the current distribution of tea cultivation is influenced by specific environmental conditions in Sri Lanka is yet to be explored. Read More

  • From the private family collection of Thomas and Lorna Jackson

    From the private family collection of Thomas and Lorna Jackson

    David Colin-Thomé (2020)

    Earlier this year, the nephew of Tom Jackson in the UK dropped off a box of photo albums and documents at Tom’s, which his nephew had come across whilst clearing out his own parents home. Read More

  • Scott Dirckze (1929 – 2019) : An Appreciation

    Scott Dirckze (1929 – 2019) : An Appreciation

    Sujit Canagaretna (2019)

    Humanitarian. Corporate Leader. Entrepreneur. Agriculturist. Raconteur. Citroen Aficionado. Historian. Classical musicophile. Art Collector. Consummate Host. Explorer. Gentleman. Friend. These are a few of the words that are synonymous with the name Scott Dirckze to many even though he will first always be Uncle Scott to me. My first memory of Uncle Scott was when I was a very young tyke, probably around early 1970. Read More

  • A Grandmother's Letter to her Grandson

    A Grandmother's Letter to her Grandson

    Joan Gottelier (2019)

    A fascinating and detailed autobiography of the extraordinary life of Joan Gottelier who was born at Hatton Hospital in 1919 to an Irish tea planting father and a South African mother. Read More

  • Murder at Midnight

    Murder at Midnight

    Bernard VanCuylenberg (2019)

    In May 1941, the Nuwara Eliya district was rocked by the news of the dastardly murder of the Superintendent on Stellenberg Estate Pupuressa, Mr. George Pope. In an article which I wrote about ten years ago titled "Tales from the Thotum" I wrote about this crime in detail. I subsequently changed the title to "Marked for Murder". His murder, the quick work by the police in arresting the accused, and the subsequent trial which followed which was heard by one of the most eminent judges of the time Justice Soertsz, ..... Read More

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