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.
I wonder whether this shows a member of the family of the then (in 1923) present owners of Somerville? This view is looking generally westwards, lengthwise of the main drive, towards the Banbury Road, past the house’s front porch whose entrance pillars are at the RHS. Behind the photographer is the rear garden, the garage and outbuildings, and on the LHS of this view, across a band of grass and some shrubbery beds, is the south-side (Oxford side) boundary wall, extending up to the Banbury Road.