Mrs Antrobus was a blow-in, and a very successful one. She lived at Nightingale Farm with her 'gels', a large pack of Great Danes. She bred them, I think. Her husband Teddy had died some years earlier. They had lived in Kenya, I think, for many decades. No children. She got fleeced by Cameron, as did Caroline, as they discovered when they both boarded a flight to Scotland to attend the creditors' meeting after he fled the country, having abandoned Elizabeth at the motorway services.
Lizzie was prepared to go with him. I can't remember what she knew, but she must have had suspicions that he was a wrong 'un - you don't flee the country at a minute's notice without good cause, do you? This somewhat tempered my sympathy for her during her time of trouble while she was deciding to have the abortion. Nigel was, of course, a tower of strength, and waited and waited till she was ready to respond to his love. Oh, how I miss Nigel.
Mrs A was very close to Hayley and Roy. She had been their landlady for a time. I hoped she would leave Nightingale Farm to them, but sadly she didn't.
Just to round off the Mrs P/Jack Archer stuff, Jack Archer was the eldest of the three children of Dan and Doris. Phil and Christine were the other two. Jack was quite a bit older and had no interest in farming. He was an alcoholic, so running The Bull was not a good career move, and eventually he had to be hospitalised. It is a touch odd that Peggy then married another Jack but Jack Woolley had been introduced before Jack Archer died, I think. Her mum set her an example, as her second husband was Mr Perkins, just like her first.
And finally.... Aunt Laura was the widow of Dan Archer's brother Frank, who had emigrated to New Zealand as a young man. She lived in Ambridge Hall. Colonel Danby was her lodger and chum. She wanted to leave the Hall to him but didn't sign the will, so he was turfed out and moved to Bristol, never to be heard again, which was a shame, as he was a darling. He was played by Ballard Berkeley who played the Major in Fawlty Towers (very similar character). If we believed that the scriptwriters do the whole thing by numbers (perish the thought) Aunt Laura's place in the scheme of things was effortlessly taken by Lynda when she and Robert bought the Hall from Aunt Laura's great-niece in New Zealand (the beneficiary of the unsigned will debacle). Busybody, occasionally tactless, heart in the right place. Every box ticked, except having Archer for a surname.