History of Ceylon Tea

Newspaper clipping from the Times of Ceylon of a 1939 dance at the Ceylon Planters Reserve Corps (C.P.R.C) headquarters. Mirium Jaggers is one of the ladies dancing.

Photo taken in Ceylon of (L-R) Item Baker, Molly Saffery and Frances Jaggers (Joan Cross' grandmother)

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Standing left to right - Jack Saffery, Jack Baker & Molly Saffery. Seated - Item Baker holding daughter Pat, Ida Schofield-Gault & unknown child

Estate bungalow -unknown

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Planter's family and car ferry - location and people unknown but it is likely that they are the Baker & Saffery families.

Unknown group

(Circa 1940s) Unknown estate - possibly Halwatara (?). Standing at the front - Frances Jaggers, standing at the back, her planter husband Vic Charles Jaggers, behind Frances is a visiting Catholic priest, the two men seated on the steps are English servicemen on leave and billeted with the family on the estate; seated young ladies are Frances (Peggy) Jaggers (Joan Cross' mother) and her sisters Mirium and Bunty (Joan) Jaggers.

Pet donkey Neddy! Queenswood Estate (?)

Pet donkeys Sadie & Neddy! Queenswood Estate (?)

Pat Baker with mother Item Baker and staff member.

Unknown couple

Unknown people on steps of an estate bungalow.

Estate bungalow - unknown.

Queenswood Estate bungalow (?) - Baker & Saffery families on steps.

Queenswood Estate (?) (L-R) Jack Saffery, Barney Schofield, Molly Saffery & Item Baker.

Pat Baker with nanny (left) and unknown (right).

Jack & Item Baker's daughter Pat (seated on left) with friends or relatives (cousins?).

Pat Baker with nanny.

Collection of photographs, primarily of the Baker family, sent in by Joan Cross from Perth, Australia, whose grandfather Vic Charles Jaggers was a tea planter in Ceylon. Joan has stated that she has not been able to identify many people in this collection of photographs nor indeed if most of the estate photos are of Queenswood, the Baker family estate.

Collection of photographs, primarily of the Baker family, sent in by Joan Cross from Perth, Australia, whose grandfather Vic Charles Jaggers was a tea planter in Ceylon. Joan has stated that she has not been able to identify many people in this collection of photographs nor indeed if most of the estate photos are of Queenswood, the Baker family estate.

(L-R) Ida Schofield-Gault, Item Baker, Pat Baker & Barney Schofield (Christmas day 1925).

Views of Queenswood Estate?

People unknown - obviously a convent school. My relatives were mostly Catholic and I know that Pat Baker and other girls attended Catholic schools. I'm told one of the school's was run by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Nuwara Eliya.

People unknown - obviously a convent school. My relatives were mostly Catholic and I know that Pat Baker and other girls attended Catholic schools. I'm told one of the school's was run by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Nuwara Eliya.

Unknown place. The portrait in the centre of the room looks a lot like Pat Baker but is probably wishful thinking on my part!

(L-R) Pat Baker, her grandmother Ida Schofield-Gault, Molly Saffery, Item Baker (with parasol), Jack Saffery & Barney Schofield (in hat).

Pat Baker (left) and friend/relative in fancy dress.

Pat Baker

Unknown child on estate with nanny.

Pat Baker on donkey with staff member.

Views of Queenswood Estate?

Views of Queenswood Estate?

Views of Queenswood Estate?

Views of Queenswood Estate?

Jack Saffery

Pat Baker on horse.

Pat Baker and unknown friend/relative.

Jack & Item Baker's daughter Pat (seated on left) with friends or relatives (cousins?).

Barry Schofield and his sister Molly Saffery on horses with members of staff.

Queenswood Estate (?) (L-R) Jack Saffery, Molly Saffery, Item Baker & Barney Schofield.

Queenswood Estate (?) (L-R) Jack Saffery, Jack Baker, Molly Saffery & Item Baker.

Queenswood Estate (?) Walter Schofield seated in dark suit, Pat Baker standing on bench, Molly Saffery in dark dress - others unknown.

Queenswood Estate (?) Walter Schofield seated in dark suit, Pat Baker standing on bench, Molly Saffery in dark dress, Jack Baker with hat - others unknown.

View of Queenswood Estate?

View of Queenswood Estate?