Beauty Queen of old Ceylon Archives

“Beauty Queen of old Ceylon” by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ It was 1950. Number 10 Lorensz Road, Bambalapitiya, Ceylon, to be exact. There, lived a girl by the name of “Neliya”or Maureen Hingert, as EVERYONE came to know her, just six years later. Neliya would have been only 13 years old when my own family moved into Number 38, Lorensz Road, that same year, I was 14, going on 15, promptly fell in love with the already blossoming beauty, actually had to “fight” her eldest brother to prove (to him) that I was worthy of courting her.This happened on a little patch of grassland at the rear end of Lorensz Road, where he gave me a “black-eye” & , in return, I presented him with a rather severe ear-ache. After that, we became friends & Neliya and I began “seeing” each other fairly regularly. It was “puppy-love”, of ...