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.
Queenstown, a general landscape view from the apartment at Fernhill.
These mountains closely border lake Wakatipu and at least at the Queenstown end are known as the “Remarkables” - their actual name I believe. The colours at the beginning and end of the day are indeed remarkable. They are perhaps the least-changing of the elemants of the landscape, here at the south end of the South Island.