Look up here items of interest, and click on them to go there:
1. General Family tree to get an idea of the family covered;
2. Ernest Archer the 1910 aviator who was an elder brother of my grandfather William George Reed Archer (1878 - 1969);
3. Ann Archer Archer, the 19th century bedspread-embroiderer;
4. Somerville House, the Oxford house and garden owned by William George Reed Archer (WGRA), my paternal grandfather, which inspired me;
5. William George Reed Archer (WGRA), my grandfather, 1878-1969, sometime owner of Somerville House;
6. Michael, Phil and Edward Archer, part of the present generation of the family;
7. Archer Cowley & Co: see notes in WGRA’s cv under them heading “WGRA’s business life” and under “WGRA’s notes on the history of Archer Cowley & Co”;
8. Puddles: This takes you to the page on “Phil’s Clubs”, so please scroll down the page to the heading “Puddles (2000 to date)”; click-on Puddles 2013 to go to the printed agenda for the 2013 meeting; click on Puddles Musings for PBA’s thoughts on what it means to him - including (at the very bottom of the page) a link to Bill Dykes’s uncle, Lt. Colonel Alfred Mc Nair Dykes, who died on 23rd August 1914 at the battle of Le Cateau as part of the British Expeditionary Force in the very early ‘mobile warfare’ stage of that great conflict, just 100 years ago as I add these words;
9. UDL History: “The firm we joined” - this is an abstract relating to the origins of the firm “Urquhart-Dykes & Lord”, including some facts relating to the role played by chance in the setting-up of the firm in the way it actually was; also included on the same page is a family tree showing Bill Dykes’ family and the members involved in setting-up UD&L;
10. Peter Lord was UD&L’s co-founding partner and this page tells you more about this interesting character; and Peter’s article for the Bulletin of the 12/50 Alvis Register tells you much more about his consuming interest in racing and Alvis cars in particular;
11. Bill Dykes’ Reminiscences of his days in the Royal Flying Corps in 1917/1918 were published by my daughter Helen Archer and me in 1999 and copies printed then have run out, so I am transcribing the book and scanning-in its graphics here to make them more widely available; please note that this long transcription job only started on 2.9.14 and will take some time;
12. G.J. Churchward is an immortal name in railway history, particularly GWR history, but is relatively unknown in other circles. Hence the fact that my great grandmother Olive Emma Reed (my paternal grandfather’s mother) was a cousin-by-marriage of GJC was unknown within the Archer family circles in my young days, and was unknown to me until I started doing family history research. To see his place in the General Family tree please click on the highlighted text. See also: GJ Churchward.
13. Archer family (generally) album page: this is an album of graphics with captions of text below the images to provide general comments and information on the subject matter;