Here is Somerville in its latter days (viewed in 2012) for comparison, for example, with the views of WGRA’s Sunbeam ‘Sixlight’, drawn up at the same porch, the better part of a hundred years before, perhaps not long after he acquired the property in about 1925. In those days, being the residuary legatee of his Uncle James who left about £55,000 in about 1925, that, according to an online inflation calculator is equivalent to somewhat over £3,000,000, no wonder he could afford a full-time gardener (who I think I recall was called William Greenaway in the 1940s) and the place looked immculately impressive, in a way that is no longer possible in modern times when people are paid on a totally different scale. (2.6.2016).
(Added a few moments later): In a way, this screenshot encapsulates so much of significance relating to this website: why, you might well ask, would anyone think that this fairly ordinary-looking house, with a two-pillar-porch and a dilapidated greenhouse, cause any particular interest in its past? It doesn’t look particularly old even. Answer: it does have a remarkable past. It was where the sixth of eleven children of an Inland Revenue Officer brought his family of five-children (one of whom, Arthur, had by then married and moved away) when he inherited undreamt-of wealth from his uncle in the mid-1920s. In those days the house was set in its own grounds of two-or-more acres of immaculately-tended gardens, and it became somewhat of an icon within the family in relation to ‘the good life’ which William Archer had (somewhat contrived) to inherit from his father’s brother, James Archer, the founder of Archer Cowley & Co. (2.6.16).