(From left to right): Mrs and Mr WGR Archer and family on holiday at Margate beach in 1913, with their three children: Nora Emma (standing in front of her dad), age about 4, and, (holding a spadeful of sand), Nora’s elder brother Arthur (age about 10), sporting a wonderful felt cap, and (on the RHS of this picture, taken by a beach-photographer), second child of the family, Fred, my father, aged about 8. My paternal grandma Lizzie (Mrs WGRA) is herself resplendant in a chapeau which is beyond me to describe adequately, and Grandpa William in his collar and tie and waistcoat and jacket, is dressed very formally, but no doubt exactly as fashion then-dictated for a reasonably prosperous (living in a ‘semi’ in Kingston Road, Oxford) employee of Mr George Blake, house-furnisher. This is about 6 years before WGRA joined James Archer in his transport business, and about 12 years before he became his uncle’s residuary beneficiary in his will and thus a relatively rich man. This is also, of course, the last summer of peace-in-europe, before the ‘thirty years war’ (WW1+2), and also the year before the twins, Olive and Elizabeth, arrived in February 1914.