Here’s my dad, Frederick George Blake Archer, with his two little nieces, Eileen and Pam Archer, in the early 1930s, enjoying the Somerville life. He lives there with his parents, William and Elizabeth Archer, together with his three sisters, Nora, Gladys, and Olive. Always lots of fruit at Somerville. Especially apples. ‘Uncle Fred’ was still unmarried, though his elder brother Arthur had two (of six eventually) children already. They are sitting on the ground in front of the outbuildings at the back of Somerville. Dad looks as though he has just come back from ‘business’, which means Archer Cowley & Co, though his brother at this stage may well still be with ‘Morriss’s’ ie working as a driver in the test department at “MG” in Cowley. At this time, Dad was doubtless riding quite often on Port Meadow, which was his recreational activity. In 1936 (or possibly before) he got to know the stable girl, Elizabeth Milne-Redhead at the Wolvercote stables where he rode, and (to cut a long story short) she introduced him to her cousin Gwen Penfold, who lived in Kingston-on-Thames, and they were married within six weeks.