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I started my career in planting on Haputale Estate, 100 years after this photograph was taken! It is indeed difficult to identify, probably this bungalow is the one that was later improved to house the General Mamnager of the owning company at that time, The Scottish Tea & Lands Coy. of Ceylon Ltd.