The view from my "office"

[DejaBrew]

Who ever said AFF isn't a caring community.

The main pool was a struggle by ourselves but eventually another couple turned up. We retreated back to the villa pool. The struggle is real.

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Proof positive that not all heroes wear capes....

 

[Cossie]

Malacca - my wife in front of her Great Great Great --- Grandfather's house. It is on Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock (formerly Herren St aka "millionaires row". It was built around 1799 using bricks bought from Holland as ballast on the trading ships. He was a German working for the D.E.I. Coy.

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Small frontage but very deep. Like this plan of a house around the corner.

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And then to Christ Church where there is a memorial to her Great Great Great Grandfather

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Wow, that is so special, were you tempted to knock on the door?

Just out of curiosity, do you know if he was religious and what his religion was?

 

[OZDUCK]

Wow, that is so special, were you tempted to knock on the door?

Just out of curiosity, do you know if he was religious and what his religion was?

It was all sealed tight. We have been inside the house in 2003 during a family reunion and it was lovely.These days it is a 'memorial house' to the person who the street is now named after - Tun Tan Cheng Lock. He was a major force in the Malaysian independence movement. The house has been in that families hands since 1879.

He was probably a Lutheran - there are memorial plaques in the Ulm Minster for the family. In Malacca he married the daughter of what must have been the last Dutch governor so probably became Dutch Reformed. He died in 1815. Christ Church Malacca became re- consecrated as Anglican in 1838 and that is when I assume his descendants became Anglicans.

This article gives a good description of the house.

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