• Sep06

    A Journey to Assam

    • By Kolony Tea
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    It is now over half a century since I first passed through the portals of 22 West Nile Street, Glasgow C 1, the address of Finlay's Glasgow offices in those days. I think it was early 1926 I answered an advertisement in one of the Scottish papers for "Young men with engineering experience to be trained as Tea Estate Managers".

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  • Sep06

    Wild Elephants at Kolony

    • By Kolony Tea
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    Tea estates in Assam are creating shelters for animals driven from their original habitat by deforestation. We were visited by this herd in July 2016.

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  • Sep06

    The Burra Bungalow at Kolony

    • By Kolony Tea
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    The Burra or Big Bungalow, which is now a Director's residence was made in the early 1950's by The Anglo-American Direct Tea Trading Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of the James Finlay Group. The Bungalow has been maintained keeping in mind the colonial heritage. Here are some pictures.

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