Baling cinnamon in Sri Lanka Late 1800s Showing five workers tying cinnamon cane into cylindrical bundles was destined for export. Photograph by W L H Skeen and Co Sri Lanka is the world’s largest producer of cinnamon, accounting for about 65% to 70% of global production. The remaining supply comes from countries like Seychelles, Madagascar, […]
Ceylon is a island called pearl of the east,my father came from Colombo.He ran away to sea at sixteen and
ended up in England during the war helping in the merchant navy has a gunner.After the war he settled down in England though he wanted to go back to is own country to see is father mother and brothers and sisters witch he never did since he left home at sixteen to go to sea.My father died at the age of 62 of cancer not knowing about is family in Ceylon since he was a young lad at sixteen what a sad story.