Sri Lankan's Seen at Colombo (100 Years ago)

A collection of Photographs of Colombo Town, taken during British Colonial Era (1815-1948) downloaded through Internet. With profound thanks to photographers (Expatriates for sure) , we are able to view how Colombo had been before 100 years ago. They wouldn't have expected an "Internet Era" to distribute their valuable efforts which we are in now. Lets View, conserve and pass them for our next Generations

[@massymiss01]

Nice collection. I was born in Colombo in 1942 and worked in the Fort in Chatham Street. Now I live in New Zealand but the memories will never die. Thanks for sharing.

[@philomenapeterson1790]

Sandy. Your place of birth will ALWAYS be home. You are blessed

[@SandaliAnu]

And it's my born place too. but in 21st century .so I didn't see what you have seen in past..you are lucky madam

[@philomenapeterson1790]

@@SandaliAnu You are blessed. In the 1950s my dad studied in Auckland on a Colombo plan scholarship. We are from Malaysia.

[@SandaliAnu]

@@philomenapeterson1790 oh ! Malaysia is a nice country.!!! I like Malaysia

[@philomenapeterson1790]

@@SandaliAnu Thank you very much dear. I'm happy to hear that 👍

[@barryhaines3325]

my wife was born in Colombo and she painted pictures in my mind of the time and this video as reinforced and put colour to her paintings. She passed away 2 years ago and I wish she had seen this. Thank you

[@jayanthama6689]

Actually very nice to see our country. thosedays very beautiful l like calling to our native sri lankan i have idea promote that in the world there is no any srilankan only the origion from srilanka therefor we have to call our nation native srilankan budusaranai

[@philomenapeterson1790]

Barry. That's a beautiful memory. May she rest in peace

[@SandaliAnu]

Actually my country is so beautiful in past time. But Mr Barry your wife so lucky. Because we never saw our country in past time. May she rest in peace. .

[@nlawr1949]

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[@nilambarameghawarna6635]

It's very interesting story. How you met her Mr, Barry?

[@malamala2143]

ස්තුතියි,ගොඩාක්,ඇත්තටමලස්සනයි,එදාඅපේරට,ජේසුපිහිටයි

[@gneirajap3741]

Thanks for showing this video even I wasnt born when it was black and white, it was amazing to see this pictures I am so proud of my country..I was born in the capital city of Colombo

[@Optimus987]

I wish it would have been the same. Looks very much peacefull.. I the British left us and that's the day we lost our freedom. Thanks for the pictures. Bless you.

[@shanitang9524]

Thanks for uploading. It made me sad. ....

[@mightysun89]

Beautiful Colombo, Ceylon. Island of pearl. I love watching videos like these. Thank you for posting.

[@Daradajee]

Colombo has always been one of the cleanest and most developed cities in South Asia.

[@SandaliAnu]

It is a nice comment for all Sri Lankans...thank you

[@din31.5]

*Singapore has entered the chat*

[@SandaliAnu]

@Shukriyadhan sorry...??? What did u mean...?

[@DEEN133]

old images of Ceylon were documented nicely with simple BGM beautiful capital city built with European style Architectural landmarks proves it was one of the great city in South Asia 100 years ago. Rohan edirimanne creation really appreciate. I really enjoyed your video thank you for uploading.💂

[@chandwick]

I wish l can go back in time and live in Ceylon.lt can never be the same.Thank you for putting these memories in print.

[@claudeanurudha7907]

A very rare collection of invaluable pictures.Enjoyed thoroughly.Thank you so much for posting.

[@kasunishara1680]

Wow, amazing, what a beautiful my mother land has,in those days😍 thanks for uploading this video ❤️

[@dilanidias1664]

Great collection of historical photos. Thank you for posting.

[@pushparanimaniyam8300]

Thanks old memories

[@seniorcitizensnewzealand7855]

Thanks for preparing and posting this.

[@khadhija]

Memorable videos thanks for your share with us 👏

[@richardvincent690]

I cant believe my eyes-and i am sad the way i see them "now"))

[@divyabhashini]

I'm very glad to watch this video..very few videos are there about ceylon..I can see ceylon was a great country even before100 years from now. maybe I was in my previous life when these pictures were taken. It's like a dream to see the people who were lived 100 years before ,and they never knew they would be seen in after 100 years.maybe my relatives were in these pictures, but sadly I don't know them..ty for some past British and American people who had taken these pictures.

[@mohammedfirdouse9252]

Very nice Thanks for sharing this video

[@shiyamariyas8792]

Thank you sir. for posting this vedio i learn more in this video!!

[@indushirani932]

It's great to sharing priceless pictures

[@barryhaines3325]

My wife Patricia was born in Colombo Her mother was half Portuguese half Dutch yes a Dutch Berger, Her surname was Anderiesz and we assumed from what she told us that her family had a shipping chandler company. Her father was in the Army a sergeant major half Irish half English his name was Tyrrell I presumed they lived in the barracks.

[@saibliss]

Thanks for sharing your wife's genealogical details and about her sentiments living in Colombo. Your story gives a practical example of European sub-cultures living in SL during colonial periods. How nice it is to have many different cultures living side by side to enrich one another...

[@philomenapeterson1790]

Barry Haines. Thank you for sharing your wife's interesting ancestry. My m-i-l is Dutch-Portuguese. My grandmother is Irish. Our ancestors came to live in Malaysia.

[@gawdion]

Thank you for posting

[@wadugelenny]

Thanks for posting. Nice..

[@christopherduff-tytler7434]

Great history, thanks for the memories of "yester year" please do follow up on Life today Chris

[@siddiquemohamed8731]

Fantastic! Can live these sweet memories. From Kandy...

[@nuttywatty]

Thank you for this beautiful videos Of old Sri Lanka

[@hasanthimudalige5905]

Thank you very much 👍💐

[@kumaraenterprises7972]

වටිනා ඡායාරූප පෙලක්

[@ranjiwijesekara]

A great video.Many Thanks.

[@unais1985]

"Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew (About Ceylon)" According to Lee, when Ceylon gained independence in 1948, it was the classic model of gradual evolution to independence. Ceylon was Britain’s model Commonwealth country. He says, after the war, Ceylon was a good middle size country with fewer than 10 million people. It had a relatively good standard of education with two universities of high quality in Colombo and Kandy teaching in English, a civil service largely of locals, and experience in representative government starting with city council elections in the 1930s.

[@serendiba]

Lee Kuan Yew swept the streets of Singapore himself in the 1950's? to show what towns can look like. My hubby was based at Changi camp as it was then before the split during the 'Emergency. Malaya, as it was had the' Tunku' and also so calm , not much crime either , less frenetic, noisy and stressful and our plane landed in KL in a rubber plantation which I found wonderful.We had to fly there as there was trouble and curfew in Ceylon as it was and could not fly direct to the UK .I was mystified hearing a lovely song we heard often called Teran Bulang played each night on the radio and was then told it was the National Anthem.My hubby spent 5 years in Malaya and wanted to return. Wonderful country too Mr Unais.

[@sylviahaik6303]

There were also quite a number of High Schools too in Colombo. I remember some of the scenes of the 40's. Thanks a lot for uploading the beautiful scenes. I cannot imagine we had such glorious buildings and hotels over a hundred years ago.

[@philomenapeterson1790]

@@serendiba Thank you Ann. I'm from Malaysia.

[@rajkumarbrian]

this is too good. i luv watching such stuff of the city i was born in. will share this link with chandra ranwala , a mad hatter with similar tastes.

[@sureshk7699]

rajkumar brian b

[@dhammikawidhanapathirana4718]

Thank you so much . but i like to see borella beasline road pictures

[@rajenthiranyogenthiran2602]

I love Sri Lanka

[@stanibol]

Great collection of images. Wonderful to see.

[@ThilinaBlyz]

Thank you for sharing this (Y)

[@philomenapeterson1790]

I would like to visit Sri Lanka with my children

[@SandaliAnu]

I hope you will come to our country..because it is a wonderful place in the world ..

[@philomenapeterson1790]

@@SandaliAnu . I would love to. I had a really good friend in school Gowri.

[@prarthanaperera1997]

Please do🙏

[@philomenapeterson1790]

@@prarthanaperera1997. Thank you for your welcome

[@serendiba]

I cannot thank your enough so for this Fantastic video of such lovely elegant buildings even the POST Office . Remember being taken to Cargills , Apothecary's , Millers etc and the Sunday Tea Rooms on the corner to eat sausages and mash and Ice cream(knicker, bocker Glories, for a treat!. The GFH looked so different without the esplanade etc.It was once an awful place just when the British first arrived . See , Penry Lewis's 'Tombstones and Monuments. Whenever I hear folk complain about those times which were by no means perfect, there is one thing one cannot deny, the British did leave some wonderful architecture behind in those salubrious tree lined areas, amidst parks. Flower Rd with its carpets of pink Acacia blooms alas, now no more . Those HUGE shade giving trees , always in memory as I was born in Ceylon as it was in 1942 .and am a S.Lankan altho I have a British ancestor who set anchor in the 1820's. I always wondered what the Cinnamon Gardens looked like and those jungles of the south. The Ella gap never fails to make me gaze in wonderment . I will never return to Hambantota and other such places where the jungle reached the sea as it is where we dreamed of going each year for a treat We will no longer be able to share now that it is to be another City and major Oil Port , something too horrible to contemplate .Makes a lump come to one's throat I must admit. Wish I could purchase of book of this scenery ?

[@SandaliAnu]

How wonderful and beautiful your memory.it's nice..👍 From : Sri Lanka

[@vijayamalasup4307]

Wonderful ancient pictures

[@merldesoisa2287]

Thank you

[@roninronin6405]

7:14 is incorrect, not Prince st, Cargill's was never on Prince st Pettah. Always been in Fort.

[@impex500]

Thank you. Very Nice

[@thiruchelvam9264]

LOVELY VERSION OF AN ANCIENT SRI LANKA

[@wanderingearth129]

Thanks for the news...

[@wanderingearth129]

Can u subscribe me? I also.subscribe u

[@maritanasoysa]

I think the unknown place in 0.24 is the current AGA office old building at end of dam street fort its in ruins now but have a look or this place close to st james there is a big reception hall in modera olombo 15 .

[@hemanth3828]

Bring back the good old way of living.

[@antonfernando8409]

0:0:52 old boys at st peter's college bambalapitya

[@gihankasturiarachchi5199]

thank you.....

[@wonderofgalaxy1405]

Asia First developed city

[@rositakurukulasuriyalage5795]

Wow.... so beautiful... colombo that time my mother was born colombo.....

[@pavansathsarasatharasinghe]

8:31 my school

[@villa2sexy]

very charming but delightful. what we've got with the label "development" nothing.... natives became pedestrian of the city today. the end is that.

[@giannadalpozzo9111]

Bellissimo lassanai❤

[@mathevartilakaratnam8823]

rare phinomena for the new generation

[@tilakoman3984]

Mathevar Tilaka

[@philomenapeterson1790]

Mathevar. Beautiful

[@SandaliAnu]

How wonderful my country in ancient time? If I can go back to the past time....

[@beensheen2]

cool music

[@KossYokota]

I see many Tartaria (previous civilization) builiding in Sri Lanka. Amazing.

[@sithumfrenando1350]

I'm sri lankan

[@Itsveerada]

soo..

[@john_____]

ඉන්දියාවෙන් අපේ රටේ වැඩට එන උං ඇවිත් මුඩුක්කු හදාගන්නැත්තං කොළඹ ලස්සනයි🤔

[@prakashettan1]

very much enjoyed with this video and i was pondering my memories of this land. appreciate if you can let me have the foto of HOTEL DE BUHARI opp to maradana railway station colombo. i need the fotos of 1953 to 1963 or later.

[@hemanth3828]

Wouldn’t it have been better if modernisation didn’t take place?

[@roninronin6405]

7:22 is also incorrect

[@shanthianysckara5943]

Koccar hodada ayam a kala anaeanam 🌷🌷

[@inranirupalata927]

Koccara nam lassana ratakda.ape rata mita para neda

[@gdukftgdukf9440]

2010

[@futurama3759]

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[@ChandimaKumara-dw8mn]

සිංහල කොමෙන්ට් හොයන මම😭😭😭

[@gayanmohomed8911]

Duki bn mey ratata moko une.koccharanam deynuwak tebilada ey kaale.oya godanageli ey wedeyatama tebunanam sancharaka akarsanayenma dolar malu piten ratata genna tebuna.ape ratata mokada bn mey une.dan api enne afganesthaneta uden wetarai.edaa japaneta wetarai dewene une api.

[@ashleyrodrigo4255]

Really good collection of photos of Ceylon...the pearl of the Indian ocean...Nostalgia is the word. Thanks to the Portuguese, Dutch and British who came here and did so much for this beautiful island. It would have much much better if we were still under British rule because since they handed over the country to us in 1948, all we have seen is chaos. Open robbery, murder, theft, lies, deceptions, false promises and the list goes on. The country has gone to the dogs as they say. Nothing has developed...take for instance the railroad...we have not constructed even a mile after the British left. This country has so much to offer, but the cruel, crooked politicians have sold this country to every dick tom and harry.

[@gmhwa692]

Ashley Rodrigo you are so foolish to say such and show your ignorance of prosper Heladiva had pre colonisation and the robbery done to our nation by leaving behind ‘democracy’ to continue the robbery and a political system of which you have described well. Are you a colonial left baggage yourself?

[@influentialtopic5487]

Sri Lanka would be one of the top developed countries if the politicians weren't corrupt. It's sad.

[@zerbutterftw]

Yeah. Our politicians need to go to a mental hospital. But I also really don't want the British to rule us

[@ML-ry8hj]

kandy tharam lassunuk naaa🤔😑😥

[@vladimirzh546]

Who named it Colombo??? There should be real name, not Portuguese

[@john_____]

"Kolon thota" (කොලොන් තොට ) during king period

[@user-mo8mf9hm6n]

Nice 👍