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  • Ken Murray - Celebrating a Legend

    Ken Murray - Celebrating a Legend

    A Tribute from Friends (2022)

    K.J. Murray recently retired from planting, having completed what is unarguably the longest unbroken career on record as an active planter, spanning the period 1962 to 2021. His storied journey through the industry straddles three distinct eras; firstly, the best of the pre-nationalisation period, followed by the State management era and, thereafter, the Regional Plantation regimen. Read More

  • A Brief History of Henfold Estate

    A Brief History of Henfold Estate

    Lorna Jackson (wife of Thomas Jackson, PD Henfold Estate 1939-1960) (2021)

    Towards the end of the 19th century, George Beck, an engineer, was in Ceylon building the up-country railways. He was very taken with the country around Dimbula district and bought 500 acres of land which he called Henfold. Read More

  • Memories of my Life in	Ceylon

    Memories of my Life in Ceylon

    Joan Turnbull (2021)

    To explain a little about my parents - my father was born at Crudgington Grange, Shropshire, went to Bloxham School near Banbury, did the ‘Grand Tour’ of Europe, worked for some time in a tea import company in London (which encouraged him to try his luck as a Tea Planter). He secured a job as a junior assistant (SD) on a low country tea estate in Ceylon in 1911. In 1914 he returned to England to join the Army and in World War I, joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and ..... Read More

  • MALCOLM HAROLD DE RUN

    MALCOLM HAROLD DE RUN

    Nihal & Mohan de Run, and Mala Miles (nee de Run) (2021)

    Malcolm Harold de Run was a late beginner in the late 1950s, a fast finisher in the late 1960s, and way ahead of his time as a plantation manager. Read More

  • Charles Frederick Braine (1850 – 1896), Adventurous, Accident Prone, Great grandfather

    Charles Frederick Braine (1850 – 1896), Adventurous, Accident Prone, Great grandfather

    George Braine (2020)

    I have previously written about my great, great grandfather Charles Joseph Braine (1814-1890), who became a coffee and tea planter in Ceylon... 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

  • 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

  • My Memoirs of the Plantations of Ceylon

    My Memoirs of the Plantations of Ceylon

    Sepala Ilangakoon (2019)

    There was once a gala sit-down dinner at the club, where name tags were placed on the tables for the guests. Garry did a scrutiny and moved ‘Laughing Laki’s tag next to his place tag. Whilst she was engrossed in a hilarious conversation with her neighbour on the other side, Garry took her soup spoon and put it in her handbag which was near at hand. Read More

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