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| Sunday, 12 October 2003 |
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Dickson's Corner Club activities being revived by P. RAJARATNAM in Nuwara Eliya The ancient and historical Planters Club, the Dickson's Corner Club in the Udapussellawa Range which once had its glory, got abandoned in the 1970's with the nationalisation of the estates, is being resurrected by a few young and energetic planters working around the Udapussellawa region. They propose to house the club in one of the estate superintendent's bungalows around Udapussellawa. Already a Dickson's Club dinner dance 2003, to raise the funds was held at the Grand Hotel, Nuwara Eliya where hundreds of planters and their friends participated. The famous Dickson's Corner Club named after a British planter late Mr. Dicksons, was one of the foremost and famous sports club in the district, with four well laid tennis courts, which used to dry up in inclement weather conditions. This club had its charm and beauty surrounded by a two-mile range patna lands with motorable facilities. The club had its ancient billiards table, and a well maintained library and no one knows as to how these valuable items got lost or displaced. A senior planter who is a septuagenarian, but still alive to problems and gaiety, Glive Tissera, a one time Secretary of the Dickson's Corner Club, recalls past episodes, when the young British planters use to call on him in his capacity as the Secretary of the Club, at his Delmar Group bungalow, complaining against the barkeeps the billiards keeper, and others not obliging with liquor at late hours. Tissera also recalls as to how the young ladies got lost in the patna lands, together with their boy friends. |
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