Saturday, February 15, 2020

At the 'Tea Castle', Pathana, Sri Lanka.





A brass water boiler replica - giant size - used to boil water, to prepare tea, in tea boutiques in the 1950s in Ceylon.
Near the entrance to the castle
Entering the castle
An ornamental tea-pot
James Taylor, pioneer planter who opened the first tea estate in Peradeniya, Ceylon
  


 

 

Illustrations of tea marketing in rural Ceylon, 1930
A Tea boutique in Ceylon of 1930