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.
Yes, well, here's another view of the memorable platform edge. And the line of the edge gives the exact alignment of the tracks that were lifted in the 1960s, and which carried all that coal and steel to and from the Consett Steelworks in the latter half of hte 19th and the first half of the 20th century, and which I may have visited in the 1950s during my summer-holiday bike tours with my friend Graeme Burton. That was in 1956/7/8. More details later. Only 60 plus years ago. Well well.