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Location! Location! …. and Now Renovation! The DBU in Colombo-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis The Dutch Burgher Union’s ‘home’ with a restaurant, bar, billaird tables and meeting rooms has been located centrally in Colombo for over a century at the junction of Bauddhaloka Mawatha (ake Buller’s Rd) and Havelock Rd running south-north across colombo — and thus withina sotone’strow of many faciltiees including the University of colombo, Nomads cricket ground, the SL braodcasting Corporation, Archives, et cetera. I have used it as a meeting spot often and in mid-September 2020 held a THANK YOU party for friends and relatives who had sustained me over a five-month covid-informed stay in Lanka. So, its is a delight to feature its further growth in pictorial form…. Michael Roberts ...

Nov 13, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Michael Roberts Tagged Dr V R Schokman, Dutch Burgher Union’s, Mr. David Colin, Mr. Nigel Austin, Mr. Stephen LaBrooy

“GOOD NEWS” (for a change) – by Des Kelly Thank you very much, Charles Schokman, for this most interesting collection of ‘Good-News’ stories. It is certainly high time we are blessed with stories such as these, because, as we all know, the news we do get, happens to be 90% BAD. So, for a while, my good readers of e’Lanka, let us forget about Wars, Missile launches, Rocket-men etcetera, and watch something that instils a little happiness and hope into our lives. Desmond Kelly. (Editor-in-Chief) e’Lanka. Dutch Burgher Union – Some good news DBU, which you must have visited when you were in SL has been refurbished and upgraded now. Refurbishing started in 2012 by Mr. T. Speldewinde who was the president of DBU. It’s a beautiful place now with comfortable rooms and two good restaurants. I have attached a few photos for you to see. Also have forwarded a link ...

Oct 28, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged DBU, Dr V R Schokman, Mr. T. Speldewinde, restaurants

THE STORY OF HAVELOCK TOWN – Richard Boyle Explore Sri Lanka January 2013 – Havelock Town: From rubber plantation to distinctive suburb Bambalapitiya Road (Havelock Road from 1907) dissecting Havelock Town and Park It may be unusual to find a town within a city – unless it’s a Chinatown – but as far as Colombo is concerned, before the creation of Havelock Town and the adjacent Havelock Park in the early years of the 20th Century, this land was outside the residential area, in fact a rubber plantation that formerly cultivated cinnamon, which stretched westwards to Galle Road. >>>> >>>> Havelock Town and Havelock Park were named by the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) to honour Sir Arthur Havelock who, after a distinguished colonial career in which he governed Sierra Leone, Trinidad, and Natal, was appointed Governor of Ceylon from 1890-1895. Havelock is best-known for abolishing the ‘paddy ...

Jun 9, 2019 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Bambalapitiya Road, Dr V R Schokman, Havelock Town, Lumbini Maha Vidyalaya Comments 0