Another mounted print which came with the album.

Phil’s History:

A ‘work in progress’ family history website starting from an Archer family of South Oxford, who were freemen, brewers, haulage contractors, and first ‘Archer & Co’ then ‘Archer Cowley & Co’ furniture removers in the 19th and 20th Centuries, inter alia, to whom are linked by marriage the Penfolds and Wells of Southwark and Surrey, the Reeds of Devon, the Gilders of Oxford and Hinckley, the Morgans of Petworth, Sussex, the Garners of Middleton, Lancs and many others. There are connections via Phil and the present generation (born 1930s/40s) with a patent law firm known as "UD&L" with motor-racing and Scottish antecedents.

And here is an illustration of how the railway-transported wagons completed their journey by road. The steam traction-engine (LHS) has hauled the wagons to the customer’s residence for loading or unloading. They will then return to the railway station for onward movement by rail. Horses and men to manage them and load/unload had to be arranged for both ends of the rail portion of the journey. (Added 26.9.16): Such ‘trains’ of wagons are relatively or completely unknown now on roads in the UK. Presumably the trailed wagons followed the path of the leading steam-engine, and did not ‘cut the corner’ nor roll over the feet of a passer-by, standing on the edge of the roadwya.

Phil’s History:

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Another mounted print which came with the album.