Here is my great-uncle Ernie in 1897, age 23, as part of the family group. Since his elder brother Eddie died (of tuberculosis) in 1888 he is the eldest son, though he has an elder sister, Olive Rose. She was my “Aunty Rose” who lived in St Margaret’s Road, at the Kingston Road end, whom I knew quite well in the 1940s and 1950s. Ernie however lived in Bilthoven, Holland, with his Dutch wife Marie, and apparently died in about 1953 and never, as far as I am aware visited Oxford after the war ended in 1945. So we never met. (Added 25.10.2014): And no one ever, then, mentioned ‘Uncle Ernest’ (actually, great uncle) in Holland. I wonder why not? Perhaps it just never cropped up. Strange, somehow. Anyway, in 1897, Ernie was soon to marry Maria van Dongen and to settle in Holland, and then, 12 or so years later, in 1910, he was to travel to France to take flying lessons, and to qualify as a pilot, and to use this flying experience to be appointed to an official aviation post in Holland, where he flew the Bleriot-design aircraft acquired by a Dutch flying organisation. His flying days were relatively brief, in 1910, due apparently to an accident in the Bleriot machine, and he then confined his activities to motor vehicles as an automotive importer and exporter. (Added 12.3.15): I now have the impression that Ernie may well have been more of the temperament of his nephew Arthur, than Fred (my dad). More about this in due course.