Left to right – Standing: Messrs R. W. E. de Vos, Vyvil Loudowyk, Fred Bastiansz, E. F. C. Ludowyk Jnr., R. A. de Vos, Bubsy Austin, E. F. C. Ludowyk Snr, W. Colin-Thomé, Dudley de Kretser, Arthur Arndt, Bertie Toussaint
Seated: Miss Mina de Vos, Miss E. Koch, Mrs Glen Altendorf, Mrs Bertie Joseph, Mrs R. A. de Vos, Mrs Bertie Toussaint, Miss Rita Kale, Mrs E. F. C. Ludowyk, Mrs W. Colin-Thomé, Mrs Dudley de Kretser, Mrs Bessie Bartholomeusz,
Seated on ground: Earnleigh de Krester, Miss Owen Ludowyk, Miss Ina de Zilwa, Miss Mabel Arndt, Miss Mavis Ludowyk, Miss Dagmar Toussaint, Francis Toussaint.
A NOTE: I discovered this photograph mounted on cardboard in my Mss depository. I could not recollect how I got it but on my recent trip to Sri Lanka David Colin-Thome informed me that his mother Moira had presented it to me. Percy Colin-Thome would have been the person who identified all the personnel for me when I placed the image in my sister’s book, Galle As Quiet as Asleep. The late Percy Colin-Thome, a gentle soul we all miss, worked closely with meand Ismeth Raheem in preparing the book People Inbetween during the late 1980s.
ALSO SEE
- Joe Simpson: “Appreciating Galle in Its Quietness and Pastness, 18 May 2017, https://thuppahis.com/2017/05/18/appreciating-galle-in-its-quietness-and-its-pastness/
- Lam Seneviratne: “Tennis in Sri Lanka: Halcyon Days, 1915–1990,” 3 May 2016, https://thuppahis.com/2016/05/03/tennis-in-sri-lanka-halcyon-days-1915-1990/
- Michael Roberts: “Nostalgic Pictorial Excursions in and around My Galle Fort,” 27 November 2015, https://thuppahis.com/2015/11/27/nostalgic-pictorial-excursions-in-and-around-my-galle-fort/
- Michael Roberts: “Donald Friend’s Imagining of Galle fort and Port in the 1890s,” 20 October 2010, https://thuppahis.com/2010/10/20/donald-friend%E2%80%99s-imagining-of-galle-fort-and-port-during-the-1890s/
- “Galle Fort in British Times,” 31 May 2014 https://thuppahis.com/2014/05/31/galle-fort-in-british-times/
- “When JR and Banda ‘batted’ together for Nomads Tennis Club in 1926: A Piece of Social History,” 29 October 2016, https://thuppahis.com/2016/10/29/when-jr-and-banda-batted-for-ceylon-together-in-1926-a-piece-of-social-history/
- “Janaka Goonetileke’s Atapattu Walauwwa,” 29 October 2012, https://thuppahis.com/2012/10/29/janaka-goonetilekes-atapattu-walawwa/
- Tissa Devendra: ” Jews who left their footprint in Island Lanka,” 17 April 2017, https://thuppahis.com/?p=24977&preview=true
Been an absolute delight to see the pictures and be reminded of those wonderful clan they call “burghers” of my hometown Galle. Wish they never left because neither as a child nor as an adult have I ever heard a bad word about these people who gave so much to make my birthplace such a joyous and amicable “achcharu” of ethnicities and spiritual belief systems.
Unfortunately none of the new countries of South Asia thought they were multi ethnic.British India broke into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan.Pakistan broke into Urdu speakers and Bengali speagkers.Ceylon had tried to divide itself into Sinhalese and Tamil speakers.
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So nice to see Miss Rita Kale who was in charge of the kindergarten shen I noined Richmond in 195r. Can still remember the tik tok noise her shoes made approaching our class.
There are nine persons seated on the ground of whom only seven have been named. Either Mavis or Gwen Ludowyck (sisters of Lyn) taught at Royal Prep school for some years and was my form teacher in STD IV in 1944. She used to travel to school in a rickshaw and wearing a skirt used a cape to cover her legs! We kids used to wonder why? !!
Now here is an old baila we used to sing ;
Rail paarey mama yana Kota, Kello tennis gahanawa,
Tennis gahana kellangey bunnis Penawa”
beautiful article..
hopefully we may go back to that era where Galle is that wonderful place to live again
I bet Carrol Stork is there!
Mike thanks for this very Historical Picture. It gives us great pleasure to see our Teacher Rita Kale, and several distinguished old boys in it like Percy Colin-Thome,E.F.C Ludowyke in the picture which is very valuable for our Richmond College Museum. Hope the 60 club and the College will take note of it . Nihal de Alwis
This picture is Very Historical . Especially for Richmondites wit Rita Kale, our teacher, Percy Collin-Thome and E.F.C. Ludowyke distinguish Old Boys who were Not only academics but excelled in Drama. Richmond Museum and the School should take not and the 60 club should give prominence.
This photograph should find a place in our country’s history. The lost Burgher community of Ceylon in Galle 1920’s style. Just 95 years ago and a sea -change in the life of of our country.
The Burgher Community at Royal College, at Galle , at Bamba and many other places were unique. Only fond memories of this clan remain