Learn something every day.
Well, one has to learn something everyday.
And today I learned something.
I thought that I updated the Kagchelland Stamboom (family tree) but by accident I overwrote the Sengers stamboom.
Luckely, and it certainly was lucky, I had another folder with the correct data.
That gave me a change to get the correct information back where I need it.
Kagchelland Family tree / Stamboom
Kagchelland is a Dutch family name.
I have now set up a Family tree / Stamboom at Kagchelland
Not complete yet but I am getting there.
Any comment and additions are welcome.
It is all based on my old favorite at my site at Sengers
Finished Coptic Daily Readings
A few days ago I finished all what was required to be able to display the Daily Readings for a Coptic Church.
I did this as a favout to a gentleman from a Coptic Church in the USA.
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Ik heb de volgende email ontvangen
Hi - I am a Sudan specialist in England. I am seeking to
contact Gerda Sengers, who has worked on the women's Zar
ritual, because I have recovered a video recording of this
ceremony from Sudan in the 1980s, and I think she will be
interested in it.
Als U Gerda kent, misschien wilt U mij een email sturen HIER.
I received the following email:
Hi - I am a Sudan specialist in England. I am seeking to
contact Gerda Sengers, who has worked on the women's Zar
ritual, because I have recovered a video recording of this
ceremony from Sudan in the 1980s, and I think she will be
interested in it.
If anyone knows Gerda, please contact me HERE.
A New Year
On my site http://www.sengers-au.com I wrote about my 10 years on the web.
That was from 1997 to 2007.
Meanwhile it is now January 2008 and I am trying to get ideas for my opening
page.
As my site is mainly for the Sengers Family Tree (Stamboom / Kwartierstaat)
I have to think about it.
Maybe I will get some of the pictures of "Het Grote Sengers Book" listed
there.
For the last month or so I have been heavily involved with the Coptic
Church.
Not that I am a convert to their church.
I have for the last few years published the KJV-Bible, the Koran/Quran and
the Synaxarium.
Because of that I did get request from a few Coptic Churches in the USA for
permission to setup the Synaxarium at their website.
As a result it is now published at a few Coptic Church sites.
These scripts were compiled from bits and pieces I collected on the web.
I had to make a special script, in PHP, to calculate the Coptic Calendar.
The latest involvement, as I mentioned above, was a request to help setup
scripts to display the daily readings of the Coptic Church.
Most of that work has now been done and I am waiting to get all the
information of what has to be read on what day during the year.
It’s been a long time..
It has been a long time I wrote something here.
Not that I don't want to, but the problem is to find time.
I have been very busy helping a webmaster of a Coptic Church to get the
Daily Readings for their church on their site.
At present I have succeeded in getting most sorted out and as far as I can
see, it works OK.
The wait for me is to get all the Psalm reading for each day.
If anyone knows where I can find a list, please…
Also, before that I helped with getting the Arabic text for the Coptic
Synaxarium to display.
That I have finished and is now viewable on my site at
http://www.sengers-au.com
The daily readings are not yet available for public display but I am working
on that.
Meanwhile, I did receive a request from other Coptic Church to have the Arabic
version.
And , I am working on that to work that one out.
My Mother sent me an email card!
Very nice!
Today I received an email with the message that I look at a card that my
mother sent me!
All I had to do was click on the link provided in the message.
Never mind that my mother died just over 15 years ago and that this is the
first email I received from here ever.
And than to think that it is possible to get in contact with me.
I did not decide to open the link, it might just be too much for me.
When she contacts me again I hope she will give me her direct email address
and not just a link to a card.
The end for Winford Motors as I knew it…..
The End of Winford Motors (the way I knew it)
12th July 2007.
Yes, it is the end of Winford Motors as I have known it.
In my page about my working days at Winford Motors you can read how and what
I did during the years between the 23rd of October 1967 and the 25th of
January 1996. That page you can visit by clicking here
It all started at the end of the year 1966.
There was Basil Malaher, who was, as far as I know, employed by Ford and had
something to do with Used cars etc.
At age of 44, Basil was a very good salesman and had a tremendous knowledge
of motor vehicles.
Then there was Mr. Grier. He was then the boss of Ford Motors for NSW
Australia and knew Basil apparently very well.
Mr. Grier had a son name John Arthur Grier who's age at that time was 22.
And then a small dealership came up for sale in Windsor NSW.
I don't know who put it all together but Mr. Grier got Basil Malaher and
John Grier together.
Both Basil and John had somehow to get some money together and they borrowed
the purchase money.
And so it came to pass that the Ford Dealership at Winford NSW came to be
owned by them.
What that means that they could operate the Ford Dealership. The premises
were owned by the Ford Motor Company
A company named Winford Motors Pty. Ltd. was registered and on the 6th of
December 1966 it started operating at 251 George Street Windsor NSW.
Telephone number at that time was 2241.
It was here, at Winford Motors on the 23rd of October 1967 where I got to
know Basil and John.
When I arrived there on my first day, I found it all very quaint.
My desk was somewhere in a corner of the showroom next to some steps leading
up to an old house that was occupied by Basil and his family. (there was not
enough office space to accommodate the office staff as well as the sales
people.)
That door was mostly open and in winter it was very cold sitting there doing
my work
The first winter I was sitting there I did have a radiator heater under my
desk to keep at least my feet warm. At one time I had some shoes on with
thick soft rubber soles. When I wanted to go up, the soles of my shoes had
molten and were stuck to the floor.
The service department was also very small and restricted. Service Manager
was Robert (Bob) Parveez and the foreman in that department was Herb
Connelly who by the way also started his job there on the same day as I did.
Parts Department was small and opened up in the showroom. The manager there
was Doug Kendall and later his assistant was Ivan Kelsall.
After a few years, it became apparent that the premises were too cramped for
the expanding sales etc.
A property at the back of the site was purchased by Ford and a very large
new workshop was build.
This also allowed for some changes and gave more showroom and office space.
After all that was done, Winford Motors really started to look like a fully
fledged dealership.
Some time after that, Ford Motor Company decided to divest itself of all
dealership properties and Winford Motors (Basil Malaher and John Grier) got
the change to outright purchase the property.
That was after I became the Accountant (Financial Controller or whatever one
might to call it) and I helped to successfully secure the property with a
loan from the bank.
The then called, Windsor Council, got the idea to block the street where the
dealership was established and put a pedestrian mall in its place.
To cut a long story short, that decision killed the shopping in Windsor and
the dealership haemorrhaged.
I had to really push Basil to make the decision to sell the Windsor property
and move to McGrath Hill.
And that is why it is the end of Winford Motors as I knew it.
I sort of knew that John wanted to get out.
He even came to see me to find out if I had any figures from the time that I
left the Company because he was in negotiations to sell the dealership.
I tried to help but the figures I had were only some balances of accounts
without any details.
I learned later that all the paperwork that he tried to find was all
destroyed.
Even the most important bits in regard to buying out Betty Malaher after the
death of Basil.
If I would still have been at Winford, that would not have happened. At
least a digital copies would have been made.
Well, visiting the Dealership on the 2nd of May 2007, I found out that the
Dealership changed ownership on the 2nd of April 2007.
That surprised me, because I would have thought that at least somebody would
have told me.
It is however only the Dealership that changed hands.
The property and all that belongs to it still belongs to Mr. John Grier.
In the past, John Grier at times mentioned that he would like to retire at
the ripe old age of about 60.
Well, I suppose he did, he is 63 years old now.
When I visited the dealership on the 2nd of May 2007, John was there, but he
seemed in a terrible hurry to go to Dr.Stubbs for one reason or the other.
That was the last I heard from John.
I am sure that we will be in contact in the near future.
From here, I wish him and his family well.
Only a few people who I worked with before I retired, still work there
today.
From what I heard from them, some will be transferred to another location of
the new owners.
I believe that the dealership is now operated by the Nepean Motor Group of
Penrith NSW.
Yes, for me it is the end of Winford Motors as I knew it.
Winford Moters, the end…..
Winford Moters, the end..
Winford Motors was situated and operated in the center of Windsor NSW since
December 1966.
Later it moved to McGrath Hill NSW, just outside Windsor.
There it occupied some hectares of land.
During the time in Windsor, Basil Malaher who was a 50% owner of Winford
Motors had the idea of developing their site and joining (dilapidated)
properties and establish a large shopping mall with car parking underneath.
Well, he certainly tried. He even got elected to the council.
It was however to no avail and each time it got rejected by council.
The council instead blocked the main street in the center of town and made
it in a mall.
This really killed most of the thriving shops in that part of town.
That is when the move to McGrath Hill was accelerated.
Guess what. Today I went to Windsor and visited a shopping mall.
Yes, after more than 30 years the shopping mall is where Basil envisaged it!
Not that is was easy for the current developer.
He had to fight the council for many years to get that far.
I must say, that new shopping mall in the center of Windsor looks pretty
good.
Now they have to build up the customers to support all those new shops.
It will be an uphill battle after the “killing” the center of Windsor as a
shopping precinct.
But I am sure, Basil who died some years ago, must have turned in his grave.
Talking about Winford Motors and the end of it as I see it, go here