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.
Morning sunshine at Somersday on the last day of July. The pond is full of blooming water-lilies with flag irises in one corner. A fountain plays. Goldfish laze. The lavender soaks up the sun, and, just out of view, a couple sip coffee as summer’s magic plays on a herbaceous bed still full of colour.