well done! Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Muhammad Fazli" <mfazli@alfaisaliah.com> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > Guys, > > You all kindled my insides too much and I simply couldn't resist the > temptation to draft a sample web design titled "The Nuwara Eliya we > knew" on Googlepages for review and more input from everyone. > > Lets hear your comments, suggestions, and also articles, stories, pics > and whatever else you can remember or search. > > Its still a beta site so take it easy on the criticism, smile! > > The URL is as follows:- http://sgenweb.googlepages.com/home > > Regards > > Fazli > > -----Original Message----- > From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of P.J.Seebregts > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:21 PM > To: srilanka@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > Hi Fazli, > > its' a great poem and yes I think it a great idea to have a google page > for the group. Beth I am sure this make you long for the old days. > > regards > > Pieter > > >> Heres a poem titled "Nuwara Eliya" which I wrote last year (2005), >> remembering the halcyon times we used to spend in those hallowed hills >> upcountry. >> >> It can be sung to the tune of the old negro spiritual, "Carry me back > to >> old Virginy", if any of you still do remember, a tune which the grand >> old Burgher music teacher, Ms Nicholas, drove into us, hard and > strong, >> at Royal Primary School in the early fifties. God Bless her soul! >> >> Fazli >> ===== >> Nuwara Eliya >> >> Rail me back to Nuwara Eliya, >> There's where the tea and the pears and berries grow. >> There's where the streams trickle sweet in the springtime. >> There's where the mist in the morning hangs low. >> >> Drive me round the vast open spaces, >> There's where the dairy and the meat and veggies grow. >> There's where the horses neigh snorting in the sunshine. >> There's where the flowers bloom brightly from their bough. >> >> Walk me up old Piduru-tala-gala, >> There's where the fauna and the wily old fox roams. >> There's where the rocks are hewn all over nature. >> There's where true peace reigns calm in our home. >> >> Take me down to the lush green Plains. >> There's where the birds and the bees and fauna go. >> There's where the world seems to end in its lifetime. >> There's where the beauty of life seems to flow. >> >> >> Fazli Sameer >> Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2005 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Vic >> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:14 AM >> To: srilanka@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >> >> Greetings from Canada! >> I am interested in any memories any of you may have of my connection > to >> Nuwara Eliya.........the house which I have an interest in was called >> Grimsthorpe, though the last pictures I have of it taken in 2004 were >> very >> grim.( I could send the pictures but I believe we are not to post >> attachments to the list?) It was abandoned and in ruins but who ever >> owned >> it and the property were then trying to sell it I was told. >> >> This home was the residence of Barbara Layard the youngest daughter of >> Charles Edward Layard and Barbara Bridgetina (nee Mooyaart) She was > the >> daughter of a Dutch governor and she and Charles had twenty-six >> children, >> twenty-two of whom lived to adulthood. Barbara, I am told was quite a >> well >> known watercolorist. She never married as far as I know but there is >> mention >> of her in several web sites, and in the travel memoirs of Sir Henry >> Austin >> Layard and his wife Inid (nee Guest) when they toured Ceylon. >> >> Any information welcome >> Best wishes to all >> Jane, Ottawa Ontario, Canada >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> >> To: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com>; <SRILANKA-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:50 PM >> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >> >> >>> Hi Prasanna and Huge, >>> >>> Actually, I know the story of Lebanon well, because it was part of my >>> family. The property, the houses known >>> as Big Lebanon and Little Lebanon were part of an estate belonging to >> Dr >>> Harry Leembruggen. His daughter >>> Gladys, married (Arthur) Dick Ephraums--they are my aunt and uncle, >> now >>> deceased. Both passed away in the US, >>> having immigrated there in the 1950's. >>> >>> Lebanon was left to ,,Aunt Dulcie,, who later sold it to the de >> Kretser >>> family. I visited the de K's at Lebanon >>> in 1980. Lebanon is now owned by Iris Jayaweera, whom I also met in >> 1994, >>> unless she has sold it >>> on. There is little book written about the place. It was a quite >> massive >>> place at one time, >>> or so it seemed to me, with large gardens, etc. I have some wonderful >>> snaps >>> of Harry >>> walking about the lawns, playing with the dogs, the gardener tending >> to >>> the >>> rose bushes. >>> Lebanon been around for sometime as my father lived there as boy and >> he >>> will >>> be 90 next year! And >>> my parents spent part of their honeymoon there in 1944. >>> >>> Dick Ephraums indeed owned the NOH in Galle, along with his sister, >> Nesta >>> Brohier, who died in 1995. It is >>> now owned by a luxury resort complex whose name I forget. They've > done >> it >>> up >>> well. I am >>> sure Aunt Nesta is looking down and smiling, but missing her garden! >>> >>> Thanks for this walk down memory lane! Greetings & best wishes. >>> >>> Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >>> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:13 AM >>> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>> >>> >>>> Yet another offering dear Beth: >>>> Prasanna, that house -Lebanon belonged to Arthur Ephraums >>>>> and when he died in 1941 his wife took up residence >>>>> there.Arthur Ephraums was a hotelier owning at various times >>>>> the NOH in Galle, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Globe Hotel, >>>>> and lived at Yalta on Flower Road. Lebanon was for many >>>>> years a boarding house after Mrs Ephraums passed on. >>>>> Regards >>>>> Hugh >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: " Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >>>> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:06 PM >>>> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Beth, >>>>>> I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for >> its >>>>>> invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite >> place >>>>>> esp >>>>>> when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one >> such >>>>>> chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose >> practice >>>>>> name is >>>>>> Jayson says: >>>>>> >>>>>> I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn > De >>>>>> Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> >>>>>> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM >>>>>> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hello Mr Warner, >>>>>>> I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know >>>>>>> about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my >>>>>>> life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can >> see >>>>>>> a snap of a portion of the house at >>>>>>> >> > http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=2 >> 1&picturesize=medium.) >>>>>>> NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very >>>>>>> beautiful. >>>>>>> Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an >>>>>>> overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation >> allows-- >>>>>>> do visit. It is a wonderful place. >>>>>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) >>>>>>> http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm >>>>>>> http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) >>>>>>> http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara >>>>>>> Eliya >>>>>>> web >>>>>>> site) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Greetings from the Netherlands. >>>>>>> Beth >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>>> From: <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>>>> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> >>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM >>>>>>> Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Good Morning List, >>>>>>>> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little >> England, as >>>>>>>> it >>>>>>>> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation > of >> Sri >>>>>>>> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone >> have >>>>>>>> any >>>>>>>> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his >> sister >>>>>>>> were >>>>>>>> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is >> not >>>>>>>> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >>>>>>>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>>>>>>> E. 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