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.
Episodes
72 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
S4E6: International hockey at Richmond & the Brooklyn Nursing Home
Frances 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 re...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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40:52
S4E5: Katayeni - Throw him away
Frances 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 ske...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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30:18
S4E4: Build a school? Need a rifle!
Frances 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 ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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33:17
S4E3: Arguing convincingly about arguing
Frances 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.Ber...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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58:33
S4E2: Vera's account of Edward VII's funeral procession - May 1910
This 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 Berna...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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49:02
S4E1: What to choose next
Frances 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 cro...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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10:25
S3E17: Vera - The Joys of Hockey
This 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.&...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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32:13
S3E16: What another letter? Yes!
Frances 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, Christophe...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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45:58
S3E15: Matilda, the Belle of East Riding
Frances 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.<...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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31:00
S3E14: 1910 politics and a General Election
Frances 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...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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1:02:04
S3E13: The Right Dishonourable Double-Face Asquith
Frances 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 g...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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54:47
S3E12: Meals I Have Eaten by One Who Has Suffered
Frances 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.)<...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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53:00
S3E11: Do You Remember? - 1909
Frances 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 te...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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1:12:56
S3E10: Dr Cox's childhood memories
Frances reads from the 1909 Christmas Budget, one of the special holiday editions written by the ten siblings and their father, printed and bound by Bernard and read aloud in the drawing room, after tea, on Christmas Day.Bernard, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:15:14
S3E9: Wilfred, Enid & Bernard
Frances reads three letters; Wilfred's letter was written in August 1909, Enid's was written in October and Bernard writes his on Chrstmas DayWilfred writes from Montana in the USA, where he is working as a miner.Enid and Cyril h...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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40:14
S3E8: SS Waratah turns turtle
Frances reads six letters, written in September and October of 1909, by Neville, Cuthbert, Arthur, Vera, Edmund and AviceNeville is back home from Africa; he writes about the journey and the cricket matches which were played between the...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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1:26:53
S3E7: The Red Lion in Thursley
Frances reads five letters, written in July, Aug and Sept of 1909, by Vera, Avice, Edmund, Enid and Bernard.Vera writes the fascinating sentence - for two days I have been alone in my glory. She also describes the Girls Friendly S...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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1:11:12
S3E6: These Animals are Dangeroos
Frances reads six letters, written in June and July of 1909 by Edmund, Enid, Avice, Bernard, Cuthbert and Avice.Edmund puts Vera on the black list for not sealing up the Budget envelope properly; it was open when the post arrived, altho...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:16:02
S3E5: Vera is sick of Shackleton
Frances reads letters written by Bernard, Cuthbert, Arthur and Vera, and also a letter written by Evelyn the bridesmaid, in 1867. These letters all came from Budget series 1, number 20, from 1909.Bernard says the Stock Exchange is busy ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:17:21
S3E4: Ten siblings - who is who, a recap
Frances provides a recap on the ten children born to Rev Dr John Charles Cox and Minnie Cox, for anyone who might be still muddling them up."The older family" - Enid (born 1868) Edmund (1869) Arthur (1870) Neville (1871) and Wilfred (18...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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43:51