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Overview
Brian Brake's original caption sheets for this roll of film, with frame numbers referring to content:
Frames 2-6: The packing cases of tea being stencilled with the name of the estate.
7-10: Inspecting and tasting samples of th enew tea, in the factory.
11, 12: Pyper demonstrating the board which shows all the statistics in relation to the finances of the workers.
13: Pyper looking through the accounts.
14, 15: L.S Pyper's bungalow.
16, 17: Pyper talking to one of the workers.
18-24: Major and Mrs Pyper and their children in the living room of the bungalow.
25: The nurse with the smaller of the children.
26, 27: Living quarter of the workers of the estate.
29-31: A tile copied from an ancient original and used in large numbers by the architect Minette de Silva in the wall of one of the houses she has built.
32-36: Extreme longshots Ceylon landscape.