So this is the grand front entrance porch, with Grandpa William’s (from memory) ‘Sunbeam 6-light’, so I have been told, ie it had 6 windows (front/rear and two on each side). I never saw this car. My first memory of Somerville is from about 1947 or 8 (I am aged 6 or 7) when Grandpa had a Lanchester 'pre-selector’ (meaning that you pre-selected the next gear on the gear-change column, and then, I think, changed to that gear by some action such as the depressing the clutch). The car had a ‘ghostly’ sound to me. Come to think of it, the background on the RHS in this shot seems a bit unfamiliar to me. It dates of course from somewhere between about 1925 and 1948, so, of course, that’s 23 years in which Grandpa might have made many changes. But, as I remember it, there would not have been that (wintery-leafless) apple-looking tree behind the stone gatepost, but outbuildings, including the garage. Perhaps they were built during those years. Or perhaps I am merely misjudging the angle at which this view is taken.(pba.17.1.15). The stripes on the grass were probably made by Grandpa’s very heavy (much cast-iron) ‘Ransomes’ 14-inch (yes, only fourteen inches width), Sturmey-Archer-engined, cylinder lawn-mower, which Dad passed on to me after Grandpa died in 1969, and which, sadly, I sold when we lived at Hemlingford Road, Walmley, Sutton Coldfield. It was a four-stroke with side-valves and a rotary starting handle and a valve-lifting lever, which made it easy to start. It would thunder along at a very good rate up and down long straight strips producing stripes like this. I wish I had kept it as a museum-piece. But in one’s young days these things don’t seem the same as they do later. I still have its little green wooden tool-box marked ‘Ransomes’. I used it much for Grandpa at his house at 19 Sandfield Road, Headington, Oxford, in my teens. He used to pay me in 2/- (two shilling) pieces, quite generously. I can’t remember just how much. It had a long throttle cable which was apt to get caught on plants, with potentially exciting results. This happened one day, and could have been disastrous, but I rescued the situation by operating the easily-accessible valve lifter - and the engine died!