100 Years of Cox
I am telling the story of ten siblings from the Machell Cox family, through the letters they wrote to each other. They were born in England between 1868 and 1884; seven of them lived in England and three lived abroad, in the Colonies. One of the siblings was my great grandfather.
Podcasting since 2020 • 72 episodes
100 Years of Cox
Latest Episodes
S4E11: Aldwyn and his coffin sofa bunk
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 boar...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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29:28
S4E10: Murder in Malawi in 1911
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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29:28
S4E9: Endhall & Wibbly Wob - 1912
Frances 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 anxi...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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28:58
S4E8: Endhall in Wolverhampton, Suffragettes & Vera's knee
Frances 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 ...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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31:46
S4E7: Planes and Motor Cars
Frances 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, o...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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1:19:27