Leonard Woolf in Ceylon: A Pictorial Excursion

A Collection derived from Digital internet sources  and with special thanks to Hugh Karunanayake in Melbourne for some great finds, including the shot of the New Oriental Hotel in Galle Fort in the 1910s, the dhony and the coastal steamers plying the island’s coasts.

Young Leonard Woolf    …. & then a mustachioed Woolf

 

 

 

 

 

Woolf and his dogs in Jaffna

 

The Jaffna railway station in 1908

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 a dhoni of the type found in the Jaffna Peninsula and north-western coastline in the early 1900s

 

 Lady MacCallum & Lady Blake — two  of the passenger  steamships plying between the ports of island Ceylon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a typical urban scenario…….. location  unclear

 

 Woolf and his kachcheri staff … in Kandy … depicted in the cover of his book Growing

 

 

 

Hambantota Bay in the early 20th century … 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…. & women in the Hambantota area fetching tank water

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the AGA’s bungalow in Hambantota where Woolf resided

... …… the New Oriental Hotel or NOH in the Fort of Galle where Woolf sojourned when on leave and/or duty