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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