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.
Old Marston, the house at the junction of Elsfield Road, and Oxford Road/Mill Road. It seems, in the 2010s to be much as I remember it almost 70 years ago, in the late 1940s, when I used to visit my friends Lionel (Standing), who lived here, and Martin (Barnsley), who lived round the corner in Elsfied Road, about 50 to 100 yards away.