# mail frances (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover mail frances. Page: Feed: --- ## S4E14: Duke Humphreys library, Mr Piggins & Mr Higgins _2025-11-16 · 100 Years of Cox_ Send us Fan Mail Frances describes her recent visit to the Bodleian library to read Budget letters. Frances also visited Great Comp to give a presentation on Vera, and describes the house and garden, for those who have not yet been able to visit Kent and experience Great Comp. She also visited The Hockey Museum in Woking, who have received a new bequest, including more photos of Vera and her… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1155872/episodes/18197297-s4e14-duke-humphreys-library-mr-piggins-mr-higgins.mp3) ## S4E13: 1945 - War and Atomic bombs _2025-08-09 · 100 Years of Cox_ Send us Fan Mail 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 -… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1155872/episodes/17643955-s4e13-1945-war-and-atomic-bombs.mp3) ## S4E12 - 1945: VE Day and VJ Day _2025-08-09 · 100 Years of Cox_ Send us Fan Mail 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,… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1155872/episodes/17643851-s4e12-1945-ve-day-and-vj-day.mp3) ## S4E11: Aldwyn and his coffin sofa bunk _2025-03-24 · 100 Years of Cox_ Send us Fan Mail 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… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1155872/episodes/16843238-s4e11-aldwyn-and-his-coffin-sofa-bunk.mp3) ## S4E10: Murder in Malawi in 1911 _2025-03-23 · 100 Years of Cox_ Send us Fan Mail 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… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1155872/episodes/16843089-s4e10-murder-in-malawi-in-1911.mp3) ## S4E9: Endhall & Wibbly Wob - 1912 _2025-01-14 · 100 Years of Cox_ Send us Fan Mail 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 anxieties in Europe that might lead to war, finishing with Christmas at Sydenham, and another Christmas Budget, written by the siblings. You can… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1155872/episodes/16432917-s4e9-endhall-wibbly-wob-1912.mp3) ## S4E8: Endhall in Wolverhampton, Suffragettes & Vera's knee _2024-09-25 · 100 Years of Cox_ Send us Fan Mail 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 siblings all think about Votes for Women - please give details - and they do. Vera suffers a knee injury during the England v. Ireland Ladies'… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1155872/episodes/15812473-s4e8-endhall-in-wolverhampton-suffragettes-vera-s-knee.mp3)