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.
St Martins House, at the top of Tottenham Court Road, just before Euston Road, where I was interviewed in February 1980, about 6 years later. Joynson Hicks, UD&L’s solicitors were in the same building. Glen looks as if he might be about 7 and is talking earnestly to Ruth Dykes. I wonder if he asked her about her racing days? And did she give him some idea of how it was to be part of the ‘roaring twenties’?