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The Bambalapitiya Flats Colombo 4, Sri Lanka – Celebrating Friends, Families and Community – The website – dedicated to a far flung diaspora of some 250 families from Sri Lanka who lived at the ‘Bambalapitiya flats’ Source: The Bambalapitiya Flats Colombo 4, Sri Lanka Website  The Bambalapitiya Flats Colombo 4, Sri Lanka – Celebrating Friends, Families and Community website hosted in Melbourne, Australia, is dedicated to a far flung diaspora of some 250 families from Sri Lanka who lived at the ‘Bambalapitiya flats’, or ‘The Flats’ as it is affectionately known – between the years 1955 and 1975. Every religion, race, language, creed and colour mingled to form a crucible of human interaction, where almost everyone knew each other by their first name. Cricket matches, badminton tournaments, film-shows, police and robbers, camps, sea-baths, diving, spear-fishing, kite competitions, ‘rugger’, football – all this and more were the stage and we the Flatters were ...