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  • A Planter’s Dream or Folly

    A Planter’s Dream or Folly

    By George Braine (2020)

    In tracing our family tree in Ceylon, my sister and I visited Yakwila Estate, near Pannala in the NWP, where my English grandfather Charles Stanley Braine served as manager in the early 1900s. Read More

  • TEA, TYTLERS AND TRIBES - An Australian Woman's Memories of Tea Planting in Ceylon

    TEA, TYTLERS AND TRIBES - An Australian Woman's Memories of Tea Planting in Ceylon

    Beryl T. Mitchell (2020)

    0ur family has its roots in the era of British colonialism. This personal story attempts to tell how a Tytler four generations ago and a Tribe three generations ago, who came from Scotland and England to Sri Lanka ( then Ceylon) lured by the prospects of coffee and tea planting, stayed to call that lovely island 'home'. Read More

  • The Largest Tea Bush – Pitaratmalie Estate, circa 1962

    The Largest Tea Bush – Pitaratmalie Estate, circa 1962

    By Project HOCT (2020)

    The pictured tea bush on Pitaratmalie Estate, Haputale was the largest on the estates of The Ceylon Tea Plantation Co., Ltd., and The Ceylon Proprietary Tea Estates Co., Ltd., and was thought to be the largest in the country. Read More

  • Drinking to your health

    Drinking to your health

    David Colin-Thomé (2020)

    Tea, the second-most consumed beverage after water is undergoing a renaissance of sorts. A strange comment perhaps, given that tea consumption has been second only to water for centuries or more. Read More

  • Norwood Estate Factory Rebuild

    Norwood Estate Factory Rebuild

    A pictorial essay on the rebuilding of the Norwood Tea factory circa 1950s from the photo album of Dick Hazell, Manager of Norwood at the time. Read More

  • The Scotts, The Murrays And The Polkes – Scions Of Pioneer Planters' In Ceylon

    The Scotts, The Murrays And The Polkes – Scions Of Pioneer Planters' In Ceylon

    An extract from the Encylopaedia of Ceylon – Ceylon Tea Industry Souvenir 1967 featured on the History of Ceylon Tea website, with more information provided by Ken Murray, who is the third generation of planters on his maternal side. Read More

  • 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

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