"The above occasion was some sort of family party, but I don’t know any details. It looks as if they have enjoyed a bite to eat and a glass of sherry and some of the ladies are wearing sprigs of lily of the valley. I don’t think it’s a wedding party but could perhaps be a party to celebrate a silver wedding or maybe the end of WW2." Sarah Mackay

Here is a close-up of the above picture, showing the people standing at the back. From left to right I think they are Fred Archer, Emma, my step grandmother Ethel and my Grandad Harry Archer (his first wife Mabel, my grandmother, died in the 1918 flu epidemic). Sarah Mackey