Jan Ford's World

The occasional and probably unreliable recollections of an aging female.

Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Bagan Clinic Activities for December 2024 - an update from Dr Hla Tun

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Dear Ms. Jan C Ford’s friends, Good morning there!   I would like to let all of you know that the total number of patients in December 202...

Bagan Clinic Activities for November 2024 - an update from Dr Hla Tun

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Bagan Clinic is a medical centre which Jan helped to establish and supported throughout the latter part of her life.  She made many visits t...

Brewood Hall - Notes from 1980

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Throughout her blog, Jan documented as much information about Brewood Hall as she could find. The following notes are from a pre-digital age...
Wednesday, 28 August 2024

Food supplies for three nunneries, funded by Jan - an update from Dr Hla Tun - 29 July 2024

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Greetings from Yangon! I went to NarLanDa, AungYaDaNar and Nunt San Nunneries in East Dagon (YwarTharGyi) yesterday morning.  There were 35,...
Tuesday, 23 July 2024

Jan Ford (1942 - 2024) - The Jan I Knew

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Jan had for some time been battling with impaired kidney function, though this had not affected her work or general outlook on life. Howev...
Sunday, 7 July 2024

Static Systems Group

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Over the years, I have been treated with great kindness by many people. When I was startiing the business, I was invited to visit the ...
Thursday, 4 July 2024

Food donations to children in two monasteries - an update from Dr Hla Tun

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I would like to update you about food donation to kids in AungChanThar(ACT) and AungZayYarMin(AZYM) Monastery. 4 sacks of rice were don...
Wednesday, 3 July 2024

Ongoing drinking water distribution - an update from Dr Hla Tun

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Latest update from Myanmar:- Ongoing drinking water donation to drinking water needed in villages on the way from Bagan to Mt.Popa, Kyau...
Sunday, 30 June 2024

The Pianola

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When my wonderful mother, Edith, was alive she trawled for all sorts of wonderful things for Brewood Hall. She found a number of items when...
Saturday, 29 June 2024

Joining the dots...

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The 'Jan Ford's World' has lots of blog posts on all sorts of topics but they don't join up. An enforced stay in hospita...

Parry People Movers Prototype

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The first electric locomotive I drove was the Dick Kerr battery shunting locomotive at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) - a...

Warley National Model Railway Exhibition 2023

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I'd volunteered to help on the stand which the Old Locomotive Committee (OLCO) had taken at the Warley National Model Railway Exhi...
Friday, 5 January 2024

Review of the Year 2023

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It would be nice to preface this year's report with a more optimistic outlook than last year's (which you can see here ) but I...
Thursday, 28 December 2023

The Neath and Brecon Railway

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My visit to the Open Day of the Global Centre for Rail Excellence in June 2023 (described here ) led to curiosity about the story of o...
Thursday, 21 December 2023

More Train Travel

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In 2023, my rail trips have been reduced due to my poor mobility, but I thought I'd mention a recent flurry of activity. 25-No...
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About Me

Jan Ford
Jan passed away on 13 July 2024.

Jan's blog will be maintained, both in her memory and also as a source of reference material in many areas of interest. New posts will be added, to continue to record the ongoing influence of Jan's work and life.

Jan:

I've been an electronics engineer for over 57 years and I'm interested in travel, history, architecture, the industrial revolution, science, railways and, well, lots of things. I believe in what one of my heroes, Richard Feynman, called "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out".

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You can contact me at jan.c.ford@gmail.com.
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