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100 Years of Cox

Frances

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Send us a text Frances reads more letters from 1945, in which the siblings describe VE Day, VJ Day, the atomic bombs and the July 1945 General election. The siblings are horrified at the devastation in Japan after the atomic bombs were dropped. After 80 years, the stories are still shocking. You can contact Frances by email - machellcoxletters@gmail.com or X/Twitter - @CoxLetters or Blue Sky - @Coxletters.bsky.social All content is subject to copyright and belongs to Frances Thompson and t...

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Send us a text Frances reads more letters from 1945, in which the siblings describe VE Day, VJ Day, the atomic bombs and the July 1945 General election. The siblings are horrified at the devastation in Japan after the atomic bombs were dropped. After 80 years, the stories are still shocking. You can contact Frances by email - machellcoxletters@gmail.com or X/Twitter - @CoxLetters or Blue Sky - @Coxletters.bsky.social All content is subject to copyright and belongs to Frances Thompson and t...

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100 Years of Cox

S4E13: 1945 - War and Atomic bombs

Send us a text Frances reads more letters from 1945, in which the siblings describe VE Day, VJ Day, the atomic bombs and the July 1945 General election. The siblings are horrified at the devastation in Japan after the atomic bombs were dropped. After 80 years, the stories are still shocking. You can contact Frances by email - machellcoxletters@gmail.com or X/Twitter - @CoxLetters or Blue Sky - @Coxletters.bsky.social All content is subject to copyright and belongs to Frances Thompson and t...

2 months ago

33 minutes

100 Years of Cox

S4E12 - 1945: VE Day and VJ Day

Send us a text Frances is reading letters from 1945, as the Machell Cox siblings experience the end of WW2 and VE Day in May and VJ Day in August. In this year of 2025, as we acknowledge the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2, the opinions and observations of the siblings clearly bring the events of 80 years ago to life. Seven of the siblings are in England - Enid, Edmund, Arthur, Bernard, Cuthbert, Avice and Vera, commenting from where they each live. Aldwyn is still working for the Mission ...

2 months ago

35 minutes

100 Years of Cox

S4E11: Aldwyn and his coffin sofa bunk

Send us a text This continues Aldwyn's story from the previous episode - listen to S4E10 first. In 1912 Aldwyn took 3 months to travel from Likoma island, Lake Malawi, to Folkestone on a German East Africa steamship, describing plenty of details on board ship. Anyone for a coffin sofa bunk? After being delayed at Zanzibar Aldwyn writes " I hope this time I am fairly under weigh." July 1912 - he is finally back in Sydenham, ready to remove antimacassars from armchairs (his pet abomination) and...

7 months ago

29 minutes

100 Years of Cox

S4E10: Murder in Malawi in 1911

Send us a text This is Aldwyn's story, in Africa, in 1911 in Nyasaland (now Malawi) - continued in the next episode. He is Anglican clergy, responsible for a large Mission station, at Kota Kota, on the west side of Lake Malawi in central Africa. But the Bishop wants him to move to Likoma island. And then a murder happens. His siblings follow the news, by letter, from England. You can contact Frances by email - machellcoxletters@gmail.com or X/Twitter - @CoxLetters or Blue Sky - ...

7 months ago

29 minutes

100 Years of Cox

S4E9: Endhall & Wibbly Wob - 1912

Send us a textFrances reads letters from 1912 from the Machell Cox siblings about visiting Enid and Cyril's house, Endhall in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton.Family letters also discuss Wibbly-Wob, Women's Suffrage, pears, jigsaws, Vera's knee and the anxieties in Europe that might lead to war, finishing with Christmas at Sydenham, and another Christmas Budget, written by the siblings.You can contact Frances by email - machellcoxletters@gmail.comor X/Twitter - @CoxLetters or Blue Sky - @Coxletters....

9 months ago

28 minutes

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S4E8: Endhall in Wolverhampton, Suffragettes & Vera's knee

Send us a textFrances reads letters from 1911 and 1912 from Enid about their new house, Endhall in Tettenhall Woods, Wolverhampton. The family all give their opinions and Frances finds where the house used to be located.Edmund wants to know what the siblings all think about Votes for Women - please give details - and they do.Vera suffers a knee injury during the England v. Ireland Ladies' International in March 1912, her hockey friends are devastated and then Vera describes a marvellous trip ...

1 year ago

31 minutes

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S4E7: Planes and Motor Cars

Send us a textFrances reads letters written by the Machell Cox siblings where they discuss the first planes to fly in England as well as motor cars. The letters in this podcast are from 1907 up till WW2.If you have forgotten which sibling is which, or you are new to this podcast, S3E4 Ten siblings - Who is who - will give you a recap.Bernard (No.6) was a wealthy London stock broker and owned two cars in the 1930s, mainly to benefit his siblings; he never learned to drive and had a chauffeur. ...

1 year ago

1 hour 19 minutes

100 Years of Cox

S4E6: International hockey at Richmond & the Brooklyn Nursing Home

Send us a textFrances reads some letters written in April 1910 by the Machell Cox siblings.Edmund is yet again a delinquent, he is late writing his letter and thinks he should resign from the Budget.Avice is in Torquay with Bernard where he is recuperating after removal of his appendix and they tell their landlady all about booby traps.Enid describes Vera playing in an exciting hockey match at Richmond, Scotland v. England on 16 March 1910, and she also describes the sectarian riots in Liverp...

1 year ago

40 minutes

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S4E5: Katayeni - Throw him away

Send us a textFrances reads two letters, written by Aldwyn in Nyasaland in Feb and April of 1910.Aldwyn drew a sketch map of the mission station at Kota Kota (now Nkhotakota), showing the church, school & hospital buildings. I found his sketch, including the many buildings. The kitchen is separate to the dining room building (due to the risk of fire), and Aldwyn even drew the mud huts where the teachers lived. All Saints Cathedral is still there, running east-west, as in Aldwyn...

1 year ago

30 minutes

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S4E4: Build a school? Need a rifle!

Send us a textFrances reads two letters, written by Aldwyn in Nyasaland in January 1910.A village school is being built, with mud walls and a thatched roof, but it is only completed when Aldwyn uses his rifle to shoot game, so the villagers will get some dinner as payment.The 'CJ' steamer does not arrive, so Aldwyn does a lot of walking between villages, in the mud.300 come to church on Christmas morning, bringing offerings of live chickens, firewood, flour, bananas, eggs, rice and even a squ...

2 years ago

33 minutes

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S4E3: Arguing convincingly about arguing

Send us a textFrances reads five letters, written by Bernard, Cuthbert, Arthur, Wilfred and Vera in February and March 1910.There is a great deal of polite arguing about whether the siblings should discuss (argue about) politics in the Budget.Bernard has appendicitis and is at the Brooklyn Nursing Home.Avice and Cecil are engaged.Cuthbert has been to a lecture and is fascinated with Shackleton and Scott, the Antarctic explorers.Arthur describes a Boy Scout visit by Robert Baden Powell.Wilfred...

2 years ago

58 minutes

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S4E2: Vera's account of Edward VII's funeral procession - May 1910

Send us a textThis episode is all about the funeral procession of Edward VII in May 1910, as winessed by the Machell Cox siblings, through handwritten family letters, read by Frances.Vera again demonstrates how she is a great letter writer, and Bernard's annotations, on the funeral programme, after WW1, were unexpected.Does anyone know any more about the King's little dog Caesar? How much of the procession did he walk in? Frances would love to know.If you have enjoyed this podcast, would you ...

3 years ago

49 minutes

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S4E1: What to choose next

Send us a textFrances has been in the northern hemisphere for a few months, visiting family and undertaking a great deal of Machell Cox research.Coming up in the podcast will be more stories from 1910, more hockey and Vera and Great Comp and more crossed letters, as Frances continues to unpick the story of these ten interesting siblings, born from 1868 to 1884.In May 2022 Frances gave a talk at The Hockey Museum, in Woking, about Vera, hockey and budget letters. If you visit Youtube and The H...

3 years ago

10 minutes

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S3E17: Vera - The Joys of Hockey

Send us a textThis episode is all about hockey. Frances reads poems written about Vera and hockey in 1908, as well as letters written by Vera, describing hockey tournaments at Weston-Super-Mare in 1911 and at Great Comp, home of the Heron Maxwells, in 1912. Vera is a great letter writer, and her vivid descriptions makes it very easy to imagine the events that occurred.0:00 Intro 3:10 Vera, hockey and poems 6:34 Weston Hockey Tournament - January 1911 17:37 Great Comp Hockey Tournam...

3 years ago

32 minutes

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S3E16: What another letter? Yes!

Send us a textFrances reads a second letter, written by Matilda Machell a week later, on Thursday 27th April, 1826, from 22 Gloucester Place in London. Ten letters of Matilda's have survived, all were written in the 1820s to her favourite brother, Christopher, back home in Beverley, Yorkshire.Minnie (Matilda's daughter) kept these letters; after her death they were transcribed by her husband (Dr Cox) in 1912, for the ten siblings to read - Matilda was their grandmother.Matilda describes carri...

3 years ago

45 minutes

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S3E15: Matilda, the Belle of East Riding

Send us a textFrances reads a letter written by Matilda Machell on Tuesday 18th April, 1826 from 22 Gloucester Place in London. Ten letters of Matilda's have survived, all were written to her favourite brother, Christopher, back home in Beverley, Yorkshire.Minnie (Matilda's daughter) kept these letters; after her death they were transcribed by her husband (Dr Cox) in 1912, for the ten siblings to read - Matilda was their grandmother. Matilda describes her piano teacher, the piano virtuo...

3 years ago

31 minutes

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S3E14: 1910 politics and a General Election

Send us a textFrances reads four letters, written by Neville, Edmund, Avice and Enid in January and February of 1910.Neville has had a fabulous holiday in England, and writes his last budget letter before sailing to Canada, including plenty about the politics of the day.Edmund is angry with his siblings about politics being included in the Budget and doesn't write a letter, then feels regret and writes a short one.Avice writes a long, chatty letter from Portal in Tarporley; she enjoys the pol...

3 years ago

1 hour 2 minutes

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S3E13: The Right Dishonourable Double-Face Asquith

Send us a textFrances reads three letters, written by Cuthbert, Arthur and Vera in January 1910.Arthur has been setting booby traps around the house.Vera has thoughtfully provided three county hockey matches to entertain her siblings; they also go to watch the football and the rugby.The siblings decide to have a fancy dress party at home, to celebrate Vera's 26th birthday.They all go to the Duke of York's theatre to watch the play - Peter Pan, or The Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up,Cuthbert alleges ...

3 years ago

54 minutes

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S3E12: Meals I Have Eaten by One Who Has Suffered

Send us a textFrances gives an update on where the siblings are in 1921, details confirmed by the 1921 Census. Seven siblings have been located on the census, an eighth, Aldwyn, is in London but has not yet been found. (Neville and Wilfred were abroad.)Frances reads the final items from the 1909 Christmas Budget:A Country Ramble, by a Perambulating Pedagogue - written by Cuthbert, based on Dr Cox's new book, Rambles in SurreyMeals I Have Eaten by One Who has Suffered - a firsthand account des...

3 years ago

53 minutes

100 Years of Cox

S3E11: Do You Remember? - 1909

Send us a textFrances reads some more from the 1909 Christmas Budget, one of the special holiday editions written annually by the ten siblings and their father, printed and bound by Bernard and read aloud in the drawing room in Longton Avenue, after tea, on Christmas Day.Avice’s contribution was called - A Day in the Life of a Govvie at Portal, all about her work as a governess for the wealthy Brooks family at a grand house, called Portal, in the village of Tarporley in Cheshire.Arthur ...

3 years ago

1 hour 12 minutes