Phil’s History:

Welcome - (to 'one longing lingering look behind’ [Gray’s Elegy] and seeking to bring to birth my part of the story of life and love’ (pba).

• Introduction: a colourful family tapestry
• Contact Form 2
• More about “Meaning” of memories:
  • Dementia - Guardian Article - 2
• Life Itself: (26.10.15):
• Contact Form
• On The EU Referendum: and keeping faith with the millions who died for us:
• Photo Album on Brexit and related subjects:
  • And on approximately the day before the 100th anniversary of the ending of the First World War on 11th November 1918: Mrs May is pulling a fast one? Sadly not.
  • Screenshot 2018-11-30 21.04.37
  • Screenshot 2018-11-30 21.07.53
• Myth-busting:
• Photo Album (general)
  • Oradour sur Glane (1)
  • Oradour sur Glane (2):
  • Post-Brexit prayer - p1.
  • Post-Brexit prayer - p2
  • The Guardian and the U.N. on happy nations and the factors in happiness:
• Photo Album: Archer family generally:
  • 1901 census 7 Tackley Place, Oxford: Alfred George Archer & family:
  • AGA & family 1901 - enlarged
  • Fred Archer with his nieces Eileen & Pam Archer at Somerville in about 1932:
  • AGA marriage licence
  • James Archer and siblings list
  • Tilly Sanders, born Matilda Archer (1846 - 1892):
  • Matilda Sanders memorial card
  • John Sanders - manuscript notes
  • AGAs own family list with dates.jpg
  • 1939 Register for William George Reed Archer and household, in Banbury Road, Oxford:
• Archer Cowley & Co:
  • Archer Cowley & Co General:
    • Archer Cowley & Co history:
    • Archer Cowley & Co photo album:
      • The 19th century road/rail lift van:
      • The 19th century Lift Van Engine:
      • Archer Cowley’s link with W.H. Munsey:
      • Archer Cowley’s 1911 telephone book entry:
      • Archer Cowley publicity postcard:
      • Archer & Co advertisement (in Shrimpton’s Popular Oxford Guide):
      • AC&Co van
      • AC & Co vans at work:
      • Centenary dinner list:
      • Archer Cowley Centenary (Saturday 16th March, 1957): Dinner Group photo
      • Archer Cowley’s 1957 Centenary Dinner: (Alec Cudds Group)
      • 1957 Centenary Dinner (Ray Cox’s group)
      • Centenary Dinner (top table group)
      • Centenary Dinner (Uncle Arthurs group)
      • Centenary Dinner sub.group.1.
      • Archer Cowley & Co 1957 Centenary Dinner Menu:
      • Oxford Mail photos from 11.10.76
      • Oxford Mail Memory Lane Article 26.9.05: The History of Archer Cowley & Co:
      • Oxfd Mail Mmry Lne Artcl p23. 3.10.05
      • "Oxford Mail" Memory Lane Article: p21 on 26.9.2005:
      • AC&Co vans at work
      • Archer Road, later Marlborough Road, an 1882 speculation by James Archer:
      • Wallis & Steevens 1903-built tractor
      • Oxford Mail graphic of Monty Gurdon:
      • Oxford Mail graphic of model of Archer Cowley’s (then, 1901) new street-front premises in Park End Street, Oxford:
    • Archer Cowley & Co history scrapbook and photo album:
      • Page 1 of album - paper cutting on inside of album’s front cover:
      • The recovery of the AC&Co album in Broad Street on 23.7.2016
      • The AC&Co scrapbook & photo album.
      • Archer & Co containers on railway wagons.
      • Another mounted print which came with the album.
      • A final mounted print which came with the album.
      • A closer view of one item from the inside cover: dates of building of the Archer Cowley Park End street warehouse blocks, and who by:
      • Our one-and-only view of a horse-drawn furniture wagon 'in action'.
      • Local and country removals, about 1893:
      • Undated view of Oxford from roof of warehouse.
      • A closer view of the warehouse-roof shot of Oxford.
      • James Archer himself.
      • Mr Cowley and Mr Rippington - the only photos known to exist.
      • Undated view of Pembroke Street with AC&Co van.
      • W.G.R. Archer and F.G.B. Archer - classic views of two AC&Co latter-day directors.
      • Classic view of the Park End Street premises, looking towards the station.
      • Classic view of the Park End Street premises, looking towards Carfax.
      • The warehouse's electric lift - and Harry Trafford.
      • Letter from Harry Trafford's widow.
      • Inside the warehouse showing furniture stored.
      • General view of the piano room at the warehouse.
      • General views of the electric lift and of the warehouse store.
      • Another view of the interior of the warehouse.
      • Fireproof doors and reinforced concrete warehouse construction.
      • James Archer from the album
      • Local and country removals c.1893
      • Mr Cowley.
      • Mr Rippington of Archer Cowley & Co, Oxford
      • View from roof of wareshouse.
      • James Archer’s Grandpont Meadows sale-particulars:
      • James Archer’s Grandpont Meadows Sale-particulars: (2)
      • James Archer’s Grandpont Meadows sale-particulars: (3)
      • James Archer’s Grandpont Meadows sale-particulars: (4)
      • Archer & Co horse-wagons and ‘Horse-pantechnicons’:
      • Archer & Co horse-wagon.
      • Archer & Co Horse-pantechnicon.
      • Archer Cowley & Co horse pantechnicon.
      • Archer Cowley notice of new address in 1947.
      • Archer Cowley, daily carriers to Radley College.
      • Archer Cowley’s Wallis & Steevens 1901 steam locomotive:
      • Archer Cowley's 1922 4-ton A.E.C ex-army/WW1 - furniture van.
      • Archer Cowley early 20th-century work page.
      • Archer Cowley petrol vans 1925-1930
      • Archer Cowley diesel-engined 7.5-ton furniture van in mid-1930s.
      • 1940 van fleet (1)
      • 1940 van fleet (2)
      • 1947 New ERF van
      • The Bodleian Science Library removal to Parks Road by Archer Cowley in 1934:
      • Archer Cowley’s gravity-assisted book-transfer system for delivering books from van through basement window to the Bodleian’s book stacks:
      • Radcliffe Square Oxford, 1934:
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      • Commendation from Bodley’s Librarian to Archer Cowley & Co in 1934:
      • Archer Cowley’s 1934 removal of the Bodleian Science Library from Broad Street to South Parks Road: line-drawing of the main building at the corner of Broad Street and Parks Road:
      • Banquet of the FWRA, 19th and 20th May 1949, at Park Lane Hotel, London
      • Archer Cowley’s 4 ton Dennis furniture van on solid tyres. New August 25th 1921:
      • The Archer family gathered at the Dorchester Hotel (now the Feathers), Woodstock at 7pm on 19th April 1958:
      • Arthur William Archer’s grandchildren:
      • Archer Cowley’s work at AERE’s new library at Harwell in 1960:
      • Archer Cowley’s second Bodleian Library removal task in 1946 is 7.5 times larger than the 1934 removal and rewarded by attendance at the opening by King George VI:
      • Customer loyalty from 1919 to 1962: 43 years of service (to Professor Whitnall and/or his family):
      • Archer Cowley’s 1950 Dennis 1100 cu ft Duramin furniture van:
      • Archer Cowley’s use of lift vans illustrated from 1919 to 1953:
      • Two Archer Cowley media items from mid-20th century: “Archers, Oxford, are 100 years old in 1957”
      • Archer Cowley centenary-shot of staff and van-fleet on March 16th 1957:
      • THE KEY TO JAMES ARCHER’S SUCCESS IN THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE FIRM:
      • James Archer’s household removals system-principles:
      • Oxford Times Friday 22nd March 1957: Archer Cowley’s centenary story:
      • Oxford Mail 18th March 1957 - reporting the Archer Cowley & Co’s centenary celebrations
      • Packing and Shipping Department of Archer Cowley & Co in 1959:
      • The Foden “IV” diesel-engined furniture van - the end of the era of rail-involvement:
      • Rear-end view of “Foden IV” in October 1960:
      • Archer Cowley’s 1870 advertisement: “By Road - By Rail - By Sea"
      • Archer & Co’s 1871 advertisement in Shrimpton’s Popular Oxford Guide:
      • Extracts from Archer Cowley old day book 1879/1880 showing rates of charges:
      • Page from Wages Book for March 17th 1894:
      • “The railways caused hopeless delays even in the good old days”:
      • Archer & Co’s “Received in good order and condition” confirmation form:
      • Archer Cowley customer feedback dated June 3rd 1892:
      • Terms and Conditions for customers’ use of James Archer & Co’s depository at Pembroke Street, Oxford:
      • Archer Cowley printed letterhead with graphics of the 1901 warehouse and frontage in Park End Street Oxford:
      • Archer & Co’s pro-forma agreement document for furniture warehousing (pre-Mr Cowley, pre-Pembroke Street, pre-Park End Street):
      • Archer & Co’s pro-forma agreement document for furniture warehousing (pre-Mr Cowley, pre-Pembroke Street, pre-Park End Street): (page 2)
      • Archer & Co’s pro-forma agreement document for furniture warehousing (pre-Mr Cowley, pre-Pembroke Street, pre-Park End Street): (page 3)
      • August 1914: the start of The Great War 1914 - 1918: recquisitioning of horses and vehicles from Archer Cowley & Co:
      • Cost of Haymaking at Grandpont Farm, Oxford in July 1898:
      • Archer Cowley's Farm Sale on 1st October 1925 (when they gave up ‘farming’ - in the sense of using horses for transport purposes, with all the associated ‘farming’ work needed to maintain them):
      • Conditions of sale for the auction sale of the Archer Cowley farm equipment:
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      • Sale of Archer Cowley’s Live and Dead Stock at Grandpont Meadows, Oxford:
      • Itemised sale particulars with realised prices entered for Archer Cowley’s farm sale 1st October 1925:
      • More particulars of the sale in 1925:
      • Final particulars of the sale in 1925:
      • Bowler, Captain, Drummer, Jolly, Pilot and other horses owned by AC & Co and sold on 6th June 1912:
      • 1898 invoice from Messrs Ashwood & Co, Coal Merchants to Archer & Co for services relating to haymaking at James Archer’s farm at Grandpont for the horses etc that provided the motive power of his removal business:
      • Punch Summer Number: May 14th 1945:
      • Oxford Times: December 30th 1955 - WGRA features in ‘With Camera and Pen'
      • “Sixteen Archers have been freemen of the city” (‘Oxford Families’ by SPB Mais in The Oxford Times of January 11th 1960:
      • Letterheads dating from 1900 and later:
      • Photograph at Messrs Barnby Bendall & Co:
      • Archer Cowley's new ERF van in 1965:
      • A Cantay van: the firm who took over the Archer Cowley business in 1969: with their name dominant and the AC&Co name on the cab door and at the rear of the body of the van.
      • Archer Cowley's Dennis 'Stork' 800 cubic feet capacity van with Perkins 4 cylinder diesel engine in March 1955:
      • The Menu of the 1957 Centenary Dinner for Archer Cowley & Co Ltd's employees, at The Cadena Cafe Regency Rooms, Cornmarket Street, Saturday March 16th 1957:
      • 'Soup-Sole-Duck-Peach Melba-Cheese & Biscuits-Coffee' - the dinner menu:
      • Followed by the speeches and entertainment:
      • Interview with WGRA in the trade journal:
      • Centenary Dinner Table-Plan and Invitation Card:
      • Trade Journal Article on Archer Cowley & Co:
      • Trade Journal Article (continued):
      • And more of the same:
      • A cartoon about removals:
      • Notes on premises related to Archer Cowley & Co:
      • The Oxford Times on 22nd March 1957 - Archer Cowley’s Centenary Advertisement.
      • Archer Cowley's most famous removal: the Bodleian to its new premises:
      • Railway ‘Mail-coach’ concept - the precursor of James Archer’s “By Rail” system:
      • Parks Road, Oxford area: showing geopraphy of the 1934 Bodleian library removal:
      • James Archer’s lineside GWR advertisement in South West Oxford: (map showing location)
    • The GWR in Oxford: its Grandpont terminus and the relationship with the firm ‘Archer & Co':
      • Oxford’s ‘Grandpont’ station and its relationship to James Archer in the 1840s and 1850s:
      • Description of the effect of the railway
      • Map of Oxford showing both railway stns
      • Map showing original station site
      • Oxford map showing how close the Grandpont station was to Folly Bridge.
      • The coming of the railway to Oxford - South Oxford Community Centre
      • Drawing of the original railway station
      • Closure of the Grandpont station
      • Builiding of the Botley Road station in 1852.
      • Isis House at Folly Bridge, Grandpont.
• Recently-added pages and text and graphics:
• If you want to know who we are:
• Dramatis Personae:
• The Pickstones and the Garners of Pendleton and Radcliffe, Lancs:
• The Pickstone family trees:
  • Elizabeth Caroline Penfold née Lucas (c.1851 - 1924):
  • General Pickstone-Garner family tree: (RH half)
  • General Pickstone-Garner Family tree (LH half):
  • The Pickstone Plum Family Tree:
  • LH half of 2nd main tree:
  • RH half of 2nd main tree:
  • Pickstone family studio portrait with name labels, 1910:
• Map/index/menu
• Book-type index page:
• General & Individual Family Trees:
• Family trees album - with commentaries below the graphics:
  • John Archer senior's tree (needs to be enlarged on-screen):
  • Earliest Archers tree incl Thomas (vicar of Whitchurch)
  • The Big 'Extended Family of Friends' at The Bridge Methodist church, Radcliffe, Lancs (1):
  • The Big 'Extended Family of Friends' at The Bridge Methodist church, Radcliffe, Lancs (2):
  • The Big 'Extended Family of Friends' at The Bridge Methodist church, Radcliffe, Lancs (3):
• Archer family CVs:
• James Archer (founder of Archer Cowley & Co)’s cv:
• Archer family graphics:
  • 1901 Census for 7 Tackley Place, Oxford.
  • 1956.7 Oxford central street map showing location of Walton Street Methodist chapel:
  • Archer family tree - the present generations.
• More family trees:
  • Informal ‘Archers of Oxford' family tree - starting from the brewers:
  • The Wilkinson connection to Nancy Garner's family, and hence to ours:
  • (ANPP.G) Audrey Nancy Parnell Philpotts.Garner’s Wilkinson family tree:
  • Family tree: Wilkinson-McKay-Johnson-Philpotts-Garner covering 1806 to the 21st century:
  • Jonathan Wilkinson’s two families (with Bridget McKay and Barbara Jones):
  • Jonathan Wilkinson’s two families (with Bridget McKay and Barbara Jones):
  • The Wilkinson family and Dawson Parnell - the origin of the “P” of ANPG’s names:
• William Wells’ cv and Marriage certificate:
• Wells Family photo album:
  • Marriage.cert.Wells.Hamilton.1869.smllr
• Links
• Descendants of William Wells the chrysanthemum-grower:
• Descendants of William Reed and Mary Rowe (the Reeds and the Archers in 18th &19th centuries)
• The Penfolds:
• John Lucas (1818-1853), engine driver and father of Elizabeth Caroline Lucas:
• Robert Penfold (c.1853 - 1945) - husband of Elizabeth Caroline Lucas:
• Elizabeth Caroline Lucas, mother of Frank Penfold, Phil's maternal grandfather:
• Frank Penfold (1875 - 1959), auctioneer and estate agent:
• Gwendolen Mary Penfold (1909 - 2009), musician, pianist, free-thinker, centenarian:
• Gwen’s musical life-story:
• Gwen’s Brinsmead upright piano, which became Phil’s:
• Penfold photo album:
  • Gwen and Vic
  • Gwen at Vincents Wedding
  • Gwen with flowers:
  • Gwen with flowers
  • Phil’s cousin Jackye, and Martyn:
  • Frank, Rosa and Raymond Penfold at Edward Archer’s christening, summer 1949:
  • Ray and Margaret's wedding:
  • Penfolds in 2015:
  • Where Frank and Rosa Penfold lived:
• Howard, de Meyer, Archer, tree:
• Yes, but who are these people?
• Pre-WW1 Aviation
  • Pre-WW1 aviation:
    • Ernest Archer - Early 20th Century aviator of the Blériot school, and automotive importer:
    • Information from Klaas Jan Sijsling:
      • Alfred Steven Archer's birth data
      • Bilthoven den en Rust cemetary data re EAA and daughter Johanna Cornelia
      • EA Archer's death certificate
      • Johanna Cornelia Archer obituary
      • Johanna Cornelia Archer's birth data
      • Johanna Cornelia's marriage data
      • Maria Geertruida Archer's birth&death data
      • Maria Geertruida van Dongen (Ernest Archer’s wife)’s death certificate:
      • Marriage data for EEA and MGvanD
      • Names of partners of Johanna and Steven
      • Alfred Steven & wife's marriage data
    • Ernie’s family tree:
    • A letter to Great-Uncle Ernest:
    • Photo Album re Ernest Archer:
      • Ernest Archer from the family group photo:
      • The family group photo in 1897:
      • Ernest Archer flying at Twello, Holland, October 16th or 17th 1910:
      • Ernest & Marie just after honeymoon:
      • Ernest and Maria Archer and family
      • Ernest Archer flying at Twello:
      • Ernest Archer’s Oxford Mail Article in about 1962:
      • Ernest Archers Wedding Group:
      • Aero Club de France list of aviators
      • 1st.British.flying.machine.
      • Text on the back of the postcard showing Ernest actually flying at Twello:
      • Kaisersveer Papierfabriek:
      • A Morris Oxford as imported by EA into NL
      • Another of Ernie's Morris imports into NL
      • Ernie's Morris cars imported into NL
      • Ernest Archer's Morris importation business in NL
      • For website from Wikipedia re Oxford timeline on early aviation:
      • Louis Bleriot - Wikipedia
    • Ernest Archer flying at Twello.2,jpg.jpg
    • Ernest Archer flying at Twello(2).jpg
• Anne Archer Archer’s bedspread:
  • Tree link to Ann Archer Archer's bedspread:
  • Anne Archer Archer’s cv: ‘Colour graphics of an early 19th Century bedspread started by 6-year-old'
  • Bedspread Notes:
  • Oxfdshire County Council Letter 20.2.78:
  • Bedspread graphics
    • Sadler's Ballooning plaque:
    • Oxfdshire County Council Letter 9.2.78:
    • Oxford Journal.7.4.1978..jpg
    • Oxford Journal.7.4.1978.
    • The whole bedspread:
    • The Hot Air Balloon:
    • Other details (i):
    • Other details (ii):
    • Other details (iii):
    • Other details (iv):
    • Other details (v):
  • Ann's family:
  • Notes on Ann:
• Somerville House:
  • Tree link to Somerville:
  • Somerville gallery:
    • Somerville driveway, looking towards Banbury Road, over the set of mill stones in front of the porch.
    • Somerville driveway with millstones, and adjoining woodland (approx 1924):
    • Somerville front garden croquet lawn, with hedge and trees lining driveway to Banbury Road.
    • Somerville front garden tennis court and
    • Somerville porch and Grandpa William’s 'Sunbeam-6-Light' car:
    • Somerville porch and car
    • Somerville porch and Sunbearm “6-light” car:
    • Somerville porch from garden
    • 1923 Sale Particulars (the leaflet has been snipped into rectangles relating to the photographs on one side - which do not match the boundaries of the text on the other side):
    • 1923 Sale particulars:
    • 1923 Sale particulars:
    • 1923 Sale particulars (the leaflet has been snipped into rectanges corresponding to the graphics on one face, the dimensions of which do not correspond to the boundaries of the text on the other face:
    • From 1923 Sale particulars:
    • 1923 Sale particulars: the leaflet had been snipped into rectangles corresponding to the photographs on one face, but which did not correspond with the dimensions of the text on the other face:
    • From 1923 Sale particulars:
    • Somerville porch from the garden:
    • Somerville rear garden orchard:
    • View of the front-door and porch region;
    • Somerville.Hse.listed.building.details.
    • Somerville.map.(2) via.Google.maps.30.7.07.
    • Somerville.map.via.Google.maps.
    • (B) Sisters at Somerville:
    • MD of Archer Cowley with his two nieces in the 1930s at Somerville House:
    • Somerville in 2012:
  • Xanadu?
    • AGA and OEAs family 1897.Cmmrcl Scan
  • A history of Somerville House, 130 Banbury Road, Oxford:
  • WGRA’s photo album:
    • WGRA and Lizzie in garden
    • Christ Church and Tom Tower in 1902:
    • A level-crossing in Holland in 1898:
    • Oxford’s dreaming spires in 1902:
    • Aerial.Oxfd.view.shwng.Ch.Ch.viewpoint..jpg
    • William, Ernest and Herbert Archer:
    • The Thames at Iffley, with Iffley church:
    • William Archer and Elizabeth Gilder's wedding in 1902:
    • WGRAs wedding people list.
    • Alfred George Archer and three other faces from his son's 1902 wedding group:
    • Blanche Archer, Blanche Bennett, Charles Archer and Edward Reed:
    • The bride and George Elston:
    • Harry Rowe:
    • 5th four
    • 6th four
    • Olive Rowe and Olive Emma Reed.Archer:
    • 8th one
    • 9th four
    • WGRA’s letter to James Archer about his first week at AC&Co, Saturday 5th July, 1919:
    • Walton Street Methodist chapel, Oxford’s history:
    • Text from Victoria History re the building of Wesley Memorial church:
    • Text from Victoria History relating to the history of Wesley Memorial church, Oxford:
    • T.Mullett Ellis’s neo-Gothic Methodist church in Malta:
    • Margate Beach 1913
  • The 1943 Wedding:
    • Born in Hythe
    • Bride and Groom on balcony
    • Bridesmaid
    • Died at Gorran Haven
    • Just married
    • Married in Halifax
    • Married in St Austell:
    • Re-addressed
    • The MCA package
    • Years later:
    • Wedding group, Gorran Haven, September 1943:
    • Gorran Haven is near Mevagissey
  • W.G.R. Archer’s father: Alfred George Archer
  • Edward Reed: (William George Reed Archer’s mother’s father):
  • My Dad’s Generation: Fred and his siblings:
    • C.Dad and little girl rider - holidaying on Exmoor:
    • Fred with Nora and Arthur At Kate’s Wedding:
    • Fred Archer, with Nora and Arthur, Aug 1909 - 64 Kingston Road, Oxford.
    • Fred and Nora Archer: studio portrait, circa 1910, living at 64 Kingston Road, Oxford:
    • Margate Beach 1913.smllr.
    • Studio portrait circa 1925
    • Wesleyan Sunday School, Walton Street, Oxford: 7.7.1919:
    • 64 Kington Road, Oxford, in 2011:
• Present Generation:
  • Tree link to Phil’s generation:
  • Phil’s own generation (just pre-WW2/during/1940s):
  • Family photo album (and related graphics):
    • 9th August 1975: Wedding at Bridge Methodist Church, Radcliffe, Manchester, Lancs:
    • Savannah location map
    • Fred (FGB) Archer with Eileen and Pam Archer in the mid-1930s:
    • Eileen and Pam Archer in the mid-1930s:
    • WGRA Family picnic: 1930s:
    • Archer family picnic in the inter-war years:
    • 1950s beach scene:
    • Wings and all:
    • Wings ceremony data:
    • Identifying information:
    • Jonathan Ince (in the top hat) and Simon Ince on September 28th 1985:
    • Chas Ince 1949 receiving his wings:
    • Pam and Chas Ince’s Golden Wedding celebration:
    • Pam Ince and Eileen Raff at Pam & Chas’s Golden Wedding do in 2009:
    • Eileen and Pam Archer at Pam & Chas’s Golden Wedding do in 2009:
    • Edward Archer's Theosophy course screen grab on 20th June 2016
    • 7th July 2009: Gwen Penfold.Archer at 100 years - her birthday cake:
    • Margate beach 1913:
    • Gran Penfold's 'arts and crafts' sideboard:
    • Phil and Anthony Collieu in the ‘wilds’ of the ponds around Cuckoo Lane, Headington, circa 1946/7:
  • Phil’s Cousins (his father’s brother, Arthur Archer’s family):
  • The Wells-Kirkby-Archer family links:
  • "Old Faithful" at Somersday:
    • Old Faithful in her symmetrical glory, before the ravages of February 2009: a well-rounded mature Sycamore, 80 or more years old, home to dormice and countless other of mother nature's creations.
    • "Old Faithful" after the ravages: showing her desparate attempts to re-grow after being reduced to a lopsided version of her magnificent former glory.
    • What happened on 27.2.2009: no planning pemission, secretly, no chainsaw, but the sounds of mature branches, half-sawed-through, cracking under their own weight, and cascading into a ghastly heap of destroyed nature.
    • The pile of remnants hacked-off by the ravages of February 2009:
    • The loss to the green world of the village is seen in this shot from further away:
    • Heaped like so much rubbish, is the remains of one side of "Old Faithful":
  • Elizabeth Milne-Redhead.Kirkby and her family:
  • Rosemarie’s photo album:
    • Family group: Brian and Grace and Rosie Archer, 1975:
    • John Archer becoming a Freeman of the City of Oxford: (1975):
    • John Archer with his neice, Leoniza:
    • Family group at Arthur and Rosie’s Golden Wedding: (1975):
    • John Archer becoming a Freeman of the City of Oxford in the 1950s:
    • R.to.L.(definitely).Roland.Rosemarie.Percy.Lewis.Rosemaries.Mam
    • Right.to.left.John.Grace.Jean.&Brian.
    • Russell.(2)
    • Russell.Archer.
    • Golden Wedding papercutting: “Oxford Mail” 1975
  • Ruth Garner.Archer’s ancestors: (click on the tree to enlarge it)
  • Garner Family History Album:
    • Harry & Betsy Garner's marriage certificate: (LH part - see adjoining graphic for RH portion).
    • Harry & Betsy Garner's marriage certificate: (RH part - see adjoining graphic for LH portion).
    • Harry Garner's death certificate from 1936:
    • Harry Garner's death ctfct 1936
    • Samuel and Audrey Nancy's marriage ctfct_0001
    • Samuel and Audrey Nancy's marriage ctfct
    • ANPP birth certificate_0001
    • ANPP birth certificate
  • Phil’s clubs and other interests:
  • Somersday II:
    • Across the road is the old North Eastern Railway branch line to Consett:
    • Rowlands Gill railway station, platform edge, end of March 2019, looking towards the magnificent viaduct ('if it weren't fer th' houses inbetween') over the River Derwent about a quarter of a mile away:
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    • Screenshot 2019-04-02 15.33.59
    • Screenshot 2019-04-02 15.33.39
    • Screenshot 2019-04-02 15.33.15
    • Screenshot 2019-04-02 15.32.54
    • Screenshot 2019-04-02 15.32.15
  • Phil's Interests: dog-walking:
  • Fred - A Bedlington terrier remembered:
  • About Mac - our 2016 Bedlington terrier puppy:
    • New-born:
    • Harper and her litter of four
    • New born and (nominally) fast-asleep:
    • Sunny, Mac’s dad - a beautiful Bedlington:
    • Harper’s litter - another view:
    • Mac at his birth home on 29th March 2016:
    • 4th April 2016:
    • 9th April 2016:
    • 4th May 2016:
    • 5th May 2016:
    • 5th May 2016:
    • 5th May 2016:
    • 6th May 2016:
    • Mac’s ‘kingdom’ at ‘Somersday':
    • 5th May 2016:
    • 5th May 2016:
    • 5th May 2016:
    • 8th May 2016:
    • 12th May 2016:
    • 19th May 2016:
    • 28th May 2016:
    • 28th May 2016:
    • 4th June 2016:
    • 4th June 2016:
    • 6th June 2016:
  • Of MCS and ’The School Field’, Culex, The Cherwell, and tubbing with DLLC:
    • RS Stanier watercolour of MCS school field:
    • Magdalen College School 1st VIII - Late 1950s, at OUBC on the Isis, opposite college boathouses:
    • Magdalen College School’s Sculloars Boat Club IV at Oxford City Rowing Club boat house: Late 1950s:
    • Sculloars IV circa 1959 at City Rowing Club Boathouse, Donnington Bridge, Oxford.
  • Oxford City Locomotive Club, early 1950s:
  • Oxford Mail article:
  • UDL: “…a small family firm”: photo album
    • Peter Lord’s speech at Bill Dykes’ ’50 years-in-practice’ dinner at The Wig & Pen club, 1977.
    • Roy & Pat & David & Phil:
    • Bill & Chris at W&P 1977
    • Bill & Ruth and Peter at The Wig and Pen, 1977
    • The two Davids and Eileen at Bill’s 50th at the Wig and Pen.
    • Peter & Chris & Glen & Ruth: December 1974:
    • Mike & family at St Martins Hse
    • Just Mike at SMH
    • Bill & Chris at W&P
    • Xmas party at St Martin’s House, Tottenham Court Road, 24.12.1974:
    • Val’s photo:
    • Vals photo:
    • 1990: Peterborough 10th anniversary at The Swallow:
    • 1990: UDL Peterborough’s 10th Anniversary at The Swallow Hotel: (2)
    • 1990: The Swallow Peterborough: UDL Peterborough’s 10th anniversary:
  • XXX Intellectual Property (draft page(s) 11.4.16)
  • EU Unregistered Design Rights:
  • Community Trade Mark Opposition:
  • Phil’s photo gallery:
    • Our son Graham and his grandma Nancy - mid 1980s:
    • My mother Gwen Archer and my brother Edward, making music in about 1985:
    • Just post-war: about 1946 or 7:
    • Phil in IoW: early 1960s:
    • Phil and Christine Garner in the Isle of White in the early 1960s:
    • At a UDL do in the early 1990s:
    • Ruth: Isle of Wight - early 1960s.
    • Ruth and Christine - Isle of Wight, early 1960s.
    • Across the road from Somersday: amid summer’s all too short lease:
    • A 1940s memory: a childhood friend’s home:
    • Kenmore 2015 - Drummond Hill
    • Guardian leader (part 1) on 21st June 2016 - two days before the EU referendum:
    • Guardian leader (part 2) on 21st June 2016 - two days before the EU referendum:
    • Guardian front page on 21.6.2016 - two days before the EU referendum:
    • Guardian 24.11.16 on Jo Cox:
    • Gwen's 100th birthday cake on 7.7.2009: Gwen Penfold.Archer - born 7th July 1909:
  • The origins of U-D&L and the Mewburns connection:
  • Falstaff:
  • Puddles meetings:
    • Puddles 2013:
    • Puddles 2014:
    • Puddles 2014:
    • Puddles 2014:
    • Steve and Simon 2011:
    • Puddles 2012
    • Puddles 2015
    • 2015 Agenda Card (front cover):
    • 2015 Agenda Card (back cover):
    • 2015 Agenda Card (p1):
    • 2015 Agenda Card (p2):
  • Somersday:
    • Noon sunshine at Somersday
    • Somersday: late July.
    • John Thomas Clarke and family in 1841:
    • JT Clarke in 1881 living with his mother, Lucy.
    • JT Clarke in 1871 living w his parents etc
    • John Thomas Clarke in 1911 census - summary
    • Somersday outhouse, March 2020, after pointing by Shane Skeet:
    • Framed drawing of Mr John Thomas Clarke's proposed house, October 1887, as hanging in our hallway:
    • Screenshot 2020-06-02 16.25.12
    • Somersday - and this gives life to me
  • Joke-slamming at Puddles:
  • UDL History:
  • WUD’s Reminiscences:
  • Peter Lord:
  • Persons of Skill and Probity (POSP:
  • Puddles first meeting:
  • Names mentioned in “Persons of Skill & Probity”:
  • UDL People:
  • Peter Lord’s article for the Bulletin of the 12/50 Alvis Register:
  • “Puddles” musings:
  • Technical people Phil has worked with:
  • Jacques Loriot and Cabinet Fedit-Loriot of Avenue Hoche, Paris:
  • Le Plessis-Robinson and Viarmes:
  • ‘Hausmusik’?
  • Kenmore, Perthshire: an Archer vacation venue for nearly 25 years:
    • The view along the north bank of Loch Tay, from the ‘Tay Bridge’ at the source of the Tay at Kenmore.
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    • IMGP0083
    • IMGP0084
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    • Glen Ogle - the viaduct on the old Callander and Oban main line.
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    • IMGP0095
    • IMGP0176.jpg
    • Drummond Hill, Kenmore, Perthshire:
  • Phil’s Blog:
  • Phil’s Blog (2): (continued from “Phil’s Blog”):
  • Peter and Sarah and Olivia Archer
    • Olivia’s first day at school:
    • Sarah and Peter:
  • EU Migration:
  • Windpower:
  • Gwen on The Battle of the Marne:
  • Puddles 2014 Agenda Card:
  • Michael's cv (as a Freeman of Oxford):
  • Steam
    • Steam Album
      • 2F 0.6.0T No. 47169 at Greenock Princes Pier, summer 1957 or 8.
      • B17.1 No.61629 Naworth Castle
      • Brittania 70031 Byron at Bletchley:
      • King Class No.6005 King George II leaving Paddington
      • 0F 0-4-0T No. 41528 at Staveley MPD
      • 01 or 04 638xx
      • 2P 4.4.0 No.40452 at Leicester LMR mpd (motive power depot): an Oxford City Locomotive Club visit:
      • The Walton Well Road Venue
    • Black 5 No.44661 on Oxford shed exit road(large).jpg
  • Sculloars tie.jpg
  • Sculloars tie.(large)
• Timeline photos:
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  • IMG_0114.jpg
  • Looking west from the corner of Christ Church Cathedral Choir School playing fields in the 1940s:
  • The Oxford of my youth in the late 1940s: Dead Man’s Walk:
• Gwenda Morgan:
  • Gwenda Morgan’s Guardian obituary (the text):
  • Gwenda Morgan: the Independent obituary:
  • Gwenda Morgan (01.02.1908 - 09.01.1991): the text of the obituary in the Independent:
  • Gwenda Morgan’s obituary in the Independent:
  • Studio portrait of Gwenda, age 18:
  • Gwenda and Cymru.
  • Gwenda and Owen aged 3 to 5
  • Gwenda Morgan’s Obituary in the Guardian: (top portion)
• The New Zealand family:
• Photo Album - the NZ connection:
  • NZ.family.Archer.side.via.tree.view.
  • Bowler.Archer.family.tree
  • Bowler.family.descendants
  • Dan B early December 2015
  • Dan B very early Dec 2105
  • Dan Bowler December 2015
  • H&M 26.11.2004.
  • Rebecca and Dan approx end November 2015
  • Rebecca approx end November 2015
  • NZ Coast at St Helier’s, Auckland.
  • A family stroll of a summer’s evening, after supper:
  • "A golden country” (1948):
  • Map of “A golden country” (1948):
  • “Golden Country” at Wolvercote, near Godstow, Oxford: 2009 in remembrance of the 1940s:
  • Wovercote, Oxford, 2009 (ii):
  • Wolvercote, Oxford 2009 (iii):
  • Glenorchy Road, Lake Wakatipu, NZ:
  • Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu and the “Remarkables” in the background:
  • Queenstown: lake Wakatipu seen from Fernhill:
  • Queenstown, Fernhill suburb:
  • N.Island map
  • S.Island map
  • In a New Zealand garden:
• Black 5 No.44661 on Oxford shed exit road(for web)
• Fred (large)
• GWR 9017 at Oxford Stn On Severn Valley Rambler(large)
• EEGs.Oxfd.Castle (large)
• UK-w.white-arrow-shwng-Oxford.jpg
• 1905 AC&Co Invoice.jpg
• WGRA first attmpt w box cmra of Ch.Ch.Cath..jpg
• P6230049.The AC&Co.window.cropped
• The formal view (2) smllr
• William Wells from book frontispiece
• WGRA with Erniie and Bert
• Unwritten family history (begun 25.7.2017):