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Memorable moment for me- the day I met Prince Phillip -by Irangani Gunatillake Memorable moment for me- the day I met Prince Phillip. It was in the year 1968, I was nominated as the Tea Queen to represent Sri Lanka at the Scottish Wholesale Society (SCWS), Centenary celebrations in Glasgow, on 5th July 1968. Queen Elizabeth 11, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh graced the occasion and declared open the centenary celebrations, on the 5th of July. The Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society (SCWS) was founded to serve the Scottish cooperative movement as a wholesaler, in 1868. This wholesale Society imported ‘Ceylon Tea’ during the eighteen nineties, and since it was a profitable venture those years, to show appreciation to the Tea trade, a Ceylon Tea exhibition Stall was initiated among other stalls, within the premises of the wholesale building where the celebration was held. I was sent as Tea ...

Apr 11, 2021 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Ceylon Tea, Ceylon Tea Board, Irangani Gunatillake, Prince Phillip

My memories working at the Ceylon Tea Centre in London during the sixties My memoirs- written by Irangani Gunatillake I was fortunate to be sent to London by the Ceylon Tea Board in Colombo, accompanying my husband, going to UK on a scholarship for higher studies. I was extremely nervous, as it was the first time, I was going for a job after leaving school, but I felt good as it was at the Ceylon Tea Centre in Piccadilly circus, London. On my first day, I was interviewed by Miss Ward, Secretary to the Tea Commissioner Mr Chambers. Her first question after a pleasant conversation was, “When can you start work as the chief receptionist at the Tea Centre”? ...

Jan 9, 2021 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Ceylon Tea, Irangani Gunatillake

The Golden Valley’s Tea of Life Friday, September 4, 2020 – 01:00 Print Edition T&C – DAILY NEWS Juliet Coombe Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the writer of Sherlock Holmes said: “The tea fields of Ceylon are as great a monument to courage as the plains of Waterloo.” Tourism trends show that the future is making the most of the great outdoors, from Street art on village walls to ancient trails through tea estates, where social distancing is easier than the crowded cities and in a way more in line with the first pioneers who first visited the country. Norwood is a stunning place to unplug and reboot ones mind, being a stunning area with only a small village in the Central Province, known as ‘The Golden Valley of Tea’; a place you can try your hand at picking tea, only to realise it takes both talent, experience and dextrous speed, ...

Sep 5, 2020 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Ceylon Tea, Julia Margaret Cameron Comments 0

THE HISTORY OF TEA AND CRICKET IN SRI LANKA – BY David Colin Thome Source: History of Ceylon Tea “You will think I write a lot about the scenery, but if you saw it you would not think I said too much” – James Taylor (Pioneering tea planter describing Ceylon in a letter to his father in Scotland in 1858) In Sri Lanka, the relevance of tea to the game of cricket extends further than that of a twenty-minute break that separates lunch and the end of a day’s play. And while tea to the Western world is but a tiny item in a crowded shopping trolley of groceries, in Sri Lanka, it is the trolley itself. For over a century, ‘Ceylon Tea’ has been the backbone of the country’s economy and to many individual Sri Lankans, its significance looms even larger. To the poorest of the poor, a ...

Aug 9, 2020 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged "CRICKET, Ceylon, Ceylon Tea, JAMES TAYLOR, Planters Clubs Comments 1

Sri Lanka donates Ceylon Tea for Australian bushfire victims Source:Xinhua COLOMBO, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) — The Sri Lankan government on Friday donated 4 tons of Ceylon Tea for the victims of the bushfire in Australia, the government information department said in a statement. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had pledged the donation in a recent telephone conversation with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, to convey Sri Lanka’s condolences and support to the government and people of Australia. “A symbol of Sri Lanka, ‘Ceylon Tea’ is popular among Australians and this donation will be distributed to the people in the affected areas,” the statement said. “Sri Lanka and Australia have always stood by each other during difficult times, especially during the 2004 Tsunami disaster when Australia extended the hand of support to Sri Lanka,” the statement added. The tea was transported in a Sri Lankan Airlines flight from Colombo to ...

Feb 16, 2020 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Ceylon Tea, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Comments 0

“COFFEE-CAPERS” – By Des Kelly Most Sri Lankans, now resident in many parts of the world, will tell you that they are Tea-drinkers, the obvious reason being that “Ceylon Tea” is still the best known beverage, EVERYWHERE.! “Brands” of tea, don’t matter to me. Strangely enough, although tea is grown, manufactured and sold by many well-known Countries, SRI LANKAN Tea is hardly ever heard of, but CEYLON Tea is the drink that everybody seems to prefer. That said, we go on to what this particular “piece” is all about, and that is Coffee. Coffee was also, and still is, quite possibly the preferred morning “cuppa” with breakfast. Coffee was also readily available in the “Ceylon” I grew up in. Always, a bit more expensive to buy, yet, I still remember the “Kiri-Kopi” that our favourite “Thumbies” used to serve, after a “thosai-feed” at places like the “Saraswathi-Lodge” ...

Jul 10, 2019 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged Ceylon Tea, COFFEE-CAPERS Comments 0