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  • . Commented on Poonagala Group in 1895

    Sir George A Pilkington and His Brother Mr: Robert Gorton Coombe

    February 19,2023 10:30am

  • . Commented on Poonagala Group in 1895

    Sir George A Pilkington and His Brother Mr: Robert Gorton Coombe

    February 19,2023 10:28am

  • . Commented on RICHARD WYNELL-MAYOW: 1922-2005

    Memories ....

    February 19,2023 09:32am

  • . Commented on RICHARD WYNELL-MAYOW: 1922-2005

    Interested ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ‘

    February 19,2023 09:17am

  • . Commented on Kalutara and its Pioneer Rubber Planters

    Clyde was a small estate. After I took over Ranjan Wijeratne added divisions of 3 estates to make it a little over 2000 acres. Became the highest net sale for crepe rubber and was sent on a tour of rubber estates in Indonesia whare the plantations were ove 5000 Acres and in a better condition than in Sri Lanka. The factories were huge with centrifuge rubber directly sent to manufaturers of tyres including Dunlop. With the

    February 17,2023 10:11pm

  • . Commented on Kalutara and its Pioneer Rubber Planters

    Thanks Ian. Cecil was my (and yours) classmate, the late Naomal Susil Dias's father.

    February 17,2023 09:47pm

  • . Commented on Kalutara and its Pioneer Rubber Planters

    Cecil Dias, who managed Sirikandura, was my cousin and my mother, brother and I spent a few days there with Cecil and Moni*, his wife, c.1940. The drive to the bungalow was long and steep, with many hairpin bends, and Cecil had erected humourous and topical illustrated line cartoons at many of the bends e.g. "One good turn deserves another!". Another memory was of the floors of the bungalow which were finished in beautifully trowelled and polished red cement. The bungalow overlooked, from quite a height, a part of the estate and Cecil had a loudspeaker at the end of the lawn playing music to those in the estate below.

    February 17,2023 09:39pm

  • . Commented on Poonagala Group in 1895

    เถ†เถบเท”เถถเทเท€เถฑเทŠ !

    February 17,2023 12:09pm

  • . Commented on Kalutara and its Pioneer Rubber Planters

    How satisfying to note that my piece has drawn the attention of two former planters from Yatadola, viz Richard Paine, and Brian Kent. Perhaps we should seek more information from them to write a fuller story on Yatadoal to supplement Michael Speers story.

    February 16,2023 10:58am

  • . Commented on Tales from the Thotum – the Dark Side

    I worked on Palmgarden in the mid 60's as an ast Suptd

    February 15,2023 12:00am

  • . Commented on Ernon

    Ha ha, 0 comments? What is wrong? ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

    February 13,2023 03:12pm

  • . Commented on Logie

    Would love some photos of the family and plantation, my grandfather Edward Lethbridge Shelton Agar was born in Kandy, Ceylon and also managed the plantation.

    February 12,2023 09:09am

  • . Commented on Mohan Ganapathy

    He had been in Drayton & Stonyclif

    February 11,2023 02:10pm

  • . Commented on Waltrim

    Deepest Impression

    February 11,2023 01:56pm

  • . Commented on Mowbray

    so happy to see the history of Mowbray in which my Grand fathers name is mentioned Pappu Retty.

    February 10,2023 12:12pm

  • . Commented on COLOMBO TRAMWAYS - DOWN MEMORY LANE

    My great grandmother was Ethel Boustead, brother of John Melvill (Jack) Boustead. One of his sons, Cedric I believe, drove a tram during the strike of 1929 and somebody threw a snake at him! Quite right!

    January 27,2023 11:23pm

  • . Commented on Glen Alpin Group

    Is lasanth de silvs still working

    January 22,2023 01:55am

  • . Commented on Watagoda

    Circa 1962-1964, Manager was Derek A R Shaw

    January 20,2023 03:35pm

  • . Commented on Rutland

    Circa 1965, Manager was Derek A R Shaw

    January 20,2023 03:32pm

  • . Commented on Passara Group

    1965-1968, Manager was Derek A R Shaw

    January 20,2023 03:30pm