tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258499896042719014.post8877531117615387538..comments2024-03-26T05:22:38.867-04:00Comments on Historic Alleys: The Peirce Leslie SagaMaddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18163804773843409980noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258499896042719014.post-35438634146899069872024-01-25T10:41:53.008-05:002024-01-25T10:41:53.008-05:00Thanks, Celeste,
Glad you stopped by to read this....Thanks, Celeste,<br />Glad you stopped by to read this. There were surely many such interesting stories. Stanes & Co and the STanes school in Coimbatore is another project, I have not yet started on it.<br />rgdsMaddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18163804773843409980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258499896042719014.post-57561083712209485692024-01-24T03:00:29.314-05:002024-01-24T03:00:29.314-05:00Very interesting.
I have a slight connection with...Very interesting. <br />I have a slight connection with your story. <br />My ancestor James Tavenor Nash was born in England 1832 but went out to Ooty in 1859 to be a schoolteacher with his brother Frederic Nash who had already established a school there. After many years, Frederic returned to London and then in 1870 my ancestor closed the school and joined Peirce, Leslie and Co in Calicut curingCeleste Gouldinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13242079631621442086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258499896042719014.post-87856693158692232702020-07-14T09:19:05.009-04:002020-07-14T09:19:05.009-04:00For those who want to read more about Mr A.D.Bolla...For those who want to read more about Mr A.D.Bolland and his days with Pierce Leslie, visit this site http://www.davidbolland.co.uk/index.htm. The website goes by the title - Never a dull moment, The Life and Times of David Bolland 1919-2012. This is a website hosting his memoires and managed by his daughter. One can read a lot about that era Pre-war, World War 2, British Colonial days in India MShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01140048052638947558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258499896042719014.post-51066519358543470492020-06-05T09:41:18.855-04:002020-06-05T09:41:18.855-04:00Thanks,
I will write about Bolland soon..
rgdsThanks,<br />I will write about Bolland soon..<br />rgdsMaddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18163804773843409980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258499896042719014.post-60807832652742640292020-05-21T12:14:39.196-04:002020-05-21T12:14:39.196-04:00
Thanks! My father was a PL employee and worked ...<br /><br /><br />Thanks! My father was a PL employee and worked under Mr.Bolland both in Calicut and Cochin.. Your article took me down memory lane.I still remember the birthday parties i used to go to of his daughter Diana ! <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07927659096311936762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258499896042719014.post-5032231101311279942019-08-22T09:48:25.296-04:002019-08-22T09:48:25.296-04:00Thanks my father was a P L employee , your article...Thanks my father was a P L employee , your article took me back to Calicut,tellicheri .where my most memorable moments of child hood were spent .had even seen Bolland Esq Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15196920643441110940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258499896042719014.post-72034739844261472182019-04-30T09:00:15.780-04:002019-04-30T09:00:15.780-04:00thanks MS
I have not attempted to collect further ...thanks MS<br />I have not attempted to collect further company information, it was only the history of the company that interested me so far...Yet to write the article on Bolland, will do so soon..<br />rgds Maddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18163804773843409980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258499896042719014.post-962414653113035112019-04-29T18:15:20.316-04:002019-04-29T18:15:20.316-04:00Most interesting post on Peirce Leslie. Do you hav...Most interesting post on Peirce Leslie. Do you have more information on the company, business and its people, even going beyond "Century in Malabar" ? Also, in later years, they were more Cochin centered rather than Calicut. Did you write the piece on Mr. A.D. Bolland ?MShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01140048052638947558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258499896042719014.post-36556569335228896612016-04-26T15:53:34.542-04:002016-04-26T15:53:34.542-04:00Thanks CHF..
There are so many more of similar nug...Thanks CHF..<br />There are so many more of similar nuggets.<br />Some decades from now, there will always be MGS's & Seluraj's books plus a few of these articles from lesser folks like us to remind people of the times of yore, of the city they termed 'the isle of Eden'...<br /><br />I have another one on the anvil about yet another Englishman who was a remarkable man, and as Maddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18163804773843409980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258499896042719014.post-60876825013375724592016-04-26T07:16:21.863-04:002016-04-26T07:16:21.863-04:00What a detailed story of one of the leading compan...What a detailed story of one of the leading companies of Calicut! You have collected so much information and put them together so skilfully that the story reads like script for a movie.<br />As you mention, it was Pierce who bought the land in Karapparamba from the Zamorin and started the coffee curing (and later on cashew processing) factory there. What an irony, then, that the present owners Calicut Heritage Forumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14760552324718923006noreply@blogger.com