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.
"A song of summer” (by Delius) is Somersday in spring or summer sunshine. Heaven on earth. A blackbird singing from the May tree in the corner. And all of this life’s delights suddenly manifest in one glorious moment of joy in living. The grandfather clock stands guard near the garden door at the end of the victorian-mosaic-tiled floor. Morning coffee and lunch beside the pond today, 4.6.15, with Ruth. What more could one wish?