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.
The Covid-19 pandemic has underlined the joys of our house and garden,. Here we see the front garden, the eliiptical arch, the box hedge and front lawn where our John Downie crab-apple tree used to stand for about 20 years until it was knocked down by a Fiat Panda flying through the air backwards. That was a sad day.