Audio file
Contributors
Interviewee: Hancox, Mary
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-08-12
Abstract
This is an interview with Mary Hancox. In this interview Mary talks about her family, WWI and WWII, Christmas, life in Manchester, meeting her husband, her wedding, moving to Canada, living in Toronto, life in England, and her brother.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:01:29
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:14:10
Discussion about various topics including her parents and brother, her brother shipwrecking off of the Scilly Islands, their Manchester home, her dad the WWI vet who fought in Turkey and France, bombings, the air raid shelter, private school, and December 1940; WWI, England, Manchester, bombing, blitzes, air raids, school, 1940, WWII.

SIDE A 00:14:10 -- 00:22:46
Discussion about various topics including evacuation to Derbyshire, Lord Haha, going to school by train, Christmas dinner, their new home in Manchester, and meeting her husband; Derbyshire, England, Lord Haha, trains, school, Christmas, Christmas dinner, Manchester.

SIDE A 00:22:46 -- 00:30:59
Discussion about various topics including D-Day, marriage, being a cook for CRCAF, Bill's quartet singing at the wedding, registering for war duty, and emigrating to Canada; emigration, 1944, WWII, D-Day, wedding, war brides.

SIDE A ends at 00:30:59.
SIDE B 00:31:51 -- 00:39:38
Discussion about various topics including emigrating to Canada, the children being sick, becoming a friend of Peggy Pentney, landing in Halifax, her first impressions of Canada, snow, wooden houses, Toronto, Bill's family, and homesickness; emigration, war brides, Peggy Pentney, snow.

SIDE B 00:39:38 -- 00:54:01
Discussion about various topics including going back to England, rationing, V1 and V2 rockets, icebergs, a friend who disappeared, Spanish Civil War evacuees, and stories about Christmas; Christmas, Chinley, England, V1 rockets, rockets, V2 rockets, WWII, icebergs, Spanish Civil War.

SIDE B 00:54:01 -- 00:59:03
Discussion about various topics including the end of the war, living in Toronto, war ruining her brother's life, things still being bad in England, Churchill, and France letting England down; WWII, soldiers, England, Winston Churchill, France.

SIDE B 00:59:03 -- 01:01:29
Discussion about returning to Chinley, her father being the cotton mill representative, and her brother Jeffery doing impressions; Chinley, England.

Tape ends at 01:01:29.