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Margaret Bradford with HOYA - Joice NanKivell Loch

from Inspirational Women by Hoya by Sonya Bradford with Hoya

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Joice NanKivell Loch 
Australian born Joice worked tirelessly as a Quaker in Europe during the First and Second World Wars when she saved the lives of thousands of poles and Jews, kept a Greek village from starvation by starting a Women’s Rug Making co-operative. Her fame is celebrated still today in Greece where she finally made her home in Ouranoupolis.

Joice NanKivell Loch MBE (24 January 1887 – 8 October 1982)[1] was an Australian author, journalist and humanitarian worker who worked with refugees in Poland, Greece and Romania after World War I and World War II.[2]


Joice Nankivell Loch's incredible life took her throughout war-torn Europe: to Ireland during its troubles, to Lenin's Russia, tending to Greek refugees evicted from Turkey, and helping Polish refugees escape from Hitler. Her story is told in a new edition of Susanna De Vries' book "Blue Ribbons, Bitter Bread".

Joice Nankivell-Loch lived from 1887 to 1982…
.. one of the most significant women of the 20th century

She worked tirelessly as a Quaker in Europe during the 1st and 2nd World wars
saving thousands of Jewish and Polish refugees


She also saved a village from starvation by starting a Women’s Rug Making Co-operative.

Her fame is still celebrated in Greece today.

The book “ Blue Ribbons and Bitter Bread by historian Suzannah De Vries inspired me to write this song.

lyrics

Joice Nankivell-Loch by Margaret Bradford

Way back in 1880 on a cane farm in Nth Queensland
A great Australian woman was born.
Until the age of thirty all she knew was grinding poverty.
As from farm to useless farm she was torn.
Bone weary every night she’d make the time to write
With farm chores and sick creatures in her care.
This hardship suffered as a youth prepared her for the naked truth
Of war-torn Europe, poverty despair.

This compassionate woman, Joice Nankivell-Loch
No task was too great for her they say, but
Ask any Australian. You’ll find no one’s even heard of her.
Yet in Greece she’s hailed as heroine today.

To write of Ireland’s troubles she ventured in the twenties.
But soon became involved with the IRA
And impartial though she tried to be,
with husband she was forced to flee
With Quakers of to Europe far away.
Here famine followed WW1 where many homeless refugees
In Poland led them to volunteer
While hungry and war weary beat a path up to her door
She faced famine and disease without fear.
This compassionate .....

She saw the fear in parent’s eyes, scared their kids would not survive.
That memory would haunt her through the years
So many orphaned kids she saved, Greek victims of the Turks.
But on she worked exhausted close to tears.

Greek mothers, hungry, desperate turned to Joyce for a solution.
So a rug-weaving co-operative she began.
Her fame as ‘Lady in the tower’ spread throughout the land
There in Greece where she finally made her home.

This compassionate .....

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from Inspirational Women by Hoya, track released September 15, 2021
Joice Nankivell Loch.... written by Margaret Bradford and recorded by the group Hoya.
HOYA is a 5 piece ensemble which includes Margaret Bradford on lead vocals, bowed psaltery and whistle, Sonya Bradford on lead vocals and harmonies, bass guitar and keyboard, Gwyn Cleeves on harmonies and guitar, Marcus Holden on violin, dobro, keyboard, cello, guitars, and Ian Knight on mandolin and harmonies.
Produced in Bloody Dog Studios Sydney.

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Margaret Bradford Sydney, Australia

Margaret's CD, inspirational women, is fittingly called HOYA- after the perennial green vine which she inherited from her grandmother. Like the Hoya plant, women’s stories grow and survive, we endure, and our struggles and responses intertwine and recur in each generation. Excellent musicians, on guitar, fiddle, mandolin & piano create a delightful river of sound under Margaret's songs ... more

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