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  • SNOWING IN CEYLON

    SNOWING IN CEYLON

    David Colin-Thome (2010)

    Well, having got your attention let me at the outset declare that the claim in the title of this missive is indeed quite true! But no, it is not in relation to the ‘Ceylon’ that we all know and love and around which this website revolves! But let me assure you that there is indeed a connection.The Ceylon I refer to is actually in Minnesota in the USA. Read More

  • RALPH DE RUN - A WALK THROUGH THE TEA FIELDS

    RALPH DE RUN - A WALK THROUGH THE TEA FIELDS

    Stefan De Run (2010)

    The documentary on the late Vivian Louis Blazé which was sent in to the History of Ceylon Tea website has inspired me to write about my father, Ralph de Run, who was a contemporary of Vivian Blazé and planted in the Uva District on Cobo Estate, Badulla and Dammeria Group, Passara when Vivian Blazé was on Sarnia Estate in Badulla. Read More

  • MY EXPERIENCES IN TEA & RUBBER PLANTATION MANAGEMENT IN CEYLON 1952 - 1969

    MY EXPERIENCES IN TEA & RUBBER PLANTATION MANAGEMENT IN CEYLON 1952 - 1969

    Ian Gardner (2010)

    I attempt to write this account as it happened and from my point of view at the time, making minimal commentary from my current point of view at the age of seventy. I hope I have remembered the failures and lapses as well as the successes. When I was in High School I remember saying to myself or to a friend, 'I will never be a rickshaw-puller. Read More

  • “MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS” – RECOLLECTIONS OF TEA PLANTING IN THE “OLD DAYS”

    “MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS” – RECOLLECTIONS OF TEA PLANTING IN THE “OLD DAYS”

    Vicki Vanden Driesen (2010)

    My father, Vivian Louis Blazé, was born on the 11th December 1929 in Galle, Ceylon. He was the youngest son of Dr. Louis Gerard Blazé and his wife Claribel Louise Blazé (nee Arndt). Vivian was educated at St Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia where he excelled at sport, captaining the athletics and swimming teams Read More

  • General Ranjan Wijeratne

    General Ranjan Wijeratne

    An Appreciation (2010)

    Born on April 4, 1931, to Walpola Mudalige George Hercules Wijeratne and Rosalind Mariya Senanayaka, General Ranjan Wijeratne received his primary and secondary education at S. Thomas’ College, Guruthalawa and Mt. Lavinia, where he excelled in athletics and all forms of sports, debating and agriculture. Read More

  • Clive Tissera

    Clive Tissera

    Ravi Perera (2010)

    I was introduced to Clive Tissera one cold evening in Nuwara-Eliya by a mutual friend. Before the introductions were made my friend as kind of background information said out of Clive’s hearing, “He, like most of the Tisseras, was a tea planter. They were colourful and sometimes rumbustious, but none of them put their hand into the till.” Read More

  • CARL SEPALA ILANGAKOON - APPRECIATION

    CARL SEPALA ILANGAKOON - APPRECIATION

    An Appreciation (2009)

    Eulogy by Ken Balendra at a requiem mass held in memory of Sepala Ilangakoon on 4th July 2009 Reverend Fathers, Sunethra, the immediate and extended families of the late Mr Sepala Ilangakoon and their friends, Thank you, Sunethra, Yevi and Rio for asking me to speak a few words at this Requiem Mass. Read More

  • THE DARRAWELLA CLUB MEMORABILIA AND PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION

    THE DARRAWELLA CLUB MEMORABILIA AND PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION

    David Colin-Thome (2008)

    The Darrawella Club has the finest collection of memorabilia of all planters’ clubs in the country, dating back to 1868... Read More

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