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S. Swaran
Singh Bhogal is a soft-spoken
ramgarhia of UK. He is a founder
trustee of Ramgarhia Sikh temple, Graham
Street, Birmingham. The family is well-known
to helps needy and do charity work for
community."
S. Swaran Singh Bhogal born to Smt. Sant Kaur Bhogal (Saggu) in
1922 at village Madhoopur, Distt Kapurthala.
His father S. Kirpa Singh Bhogal was a
farmer and expert in sappy work.
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S.Swaran Singh joined
the village school for studies. During those days people preferred
skilled trades instead of getting academic qualification. So
during study he started to help his father in woodworks. Under his guidance he
became a good carpenter. He joined “Elite Furniture Company” to
polish his skill of manufacturing furniture. After accessing his
quality of work the owner promoted him as Forman. He worked at
various places in Pakistan and India.
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Once
he suffered from severe diarrhoea,
he was unable to board a train, he requested
the railway inspector to help, and managed to
reach home very sick. With the blessing of “WAHEGURU” and timely
treatment of the village vaid he survived.
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The family try to diversify their work and started to develop wire
nail manufacturing machine. They visited the premises of nail
manufacturer to get help but could not succeed. If some one
develops any technique he never shares it with anybody, because
manufacturer doesn’t want a new competitor. Then Swaran and his brothers started to develop themselves.
With in 6 month of experimentation they
developed their own nail making machine. With
development of the machine the “Bhogal Industries
“established in 1945. After manufactured quality nails
for many years the family stopped manufacturing nails.
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One of his cousins who worked as carpenter in a Chinese firm in Kolkata
called him. The owner gave him the most difficult task
of woodwork. He did it very efficiently and wins the
heart of the owner. He joined and became a most trust
worthy person of the company. Destiny had written something else in his luck. He
reached Africa in 1951 after three years he returned to
India then again he
went to Africa in 1957 ultimately in 1959 he shifted to
Birmingham, England
and made UK his permanent residence.
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At UK he joined W.J Whittal & Co. As most experienced
person in wood work he offered good salary and
opportunity at D.W.Parkins. After assessing his
perfection in quality A co –worker (An English
Man) advised him to start his own work. After persuasion Swaran Singh established “Atlantic joinery service” in
1981 in a small garage at Birmingham, UK
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After getting response from satisfied customer “Atlantic
Joinery Service” shifted to more specious place in Winson
Green. He has been a blessed master craftsman with his
hard work and sincerity he becomes popular among the
English peoples for quality work and timely delivery.
Then observing the work load. His elder son S.Balwant
Sigh who was working as site agent in Sandwell council
joined him. With his co-ordination and farsightedness
the company earned good reputation. Now the company is
well known in its field. Once the family had worked
under the English people. Now the company providing jobs
too many English peoples.
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S.Swaran Singh
has been an active Ramgarhia in Kenya. After
shifting to UK he formed a Ramgarhia Association,
Small Heath Birmingham with like minded friends in
1967. The association worked a lot to help our
ramgarhia brethren in many ways. The family
contributed a lot for Maharaja Jassa Singh birth
place and Maharaja Jassa Singh Ramgarhia Bunga,
Hazoor Sahib, Nanded, Maharashtra, India
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S Swaran Singh
Bhogal married in 1940 to Smt Niranjan Kaur
(Bhamra) .The couple blessed with two sons S. Balwant Singh Bhogal and S.Jarnail Singh Bhogal
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we have to trained our children in technical skill
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Address
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Birimingham,UK |
