South Yorkshire Times May 10, 1947

Air Trip to Brazil

Mexborough Woman’s Husband Takes Steel Post Near Rio

A Mexborough woman, Mrs. Dorothy Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Walter Gledhill, Park Road, left Croydon by air on Monday with her husband. Mr. Leslie Cook, and 25 hours later touched down in Brazil, where Mr. Cook, a metallurgist, is taking up an appointment with the Volts Redonda Steel Corporation, Volta Redonda, near Rio de Janeiro. Accompanying them was their three-months-old son, Peter

Via Africa

They flew by C.S.N. Air Lines by way of Paris, Lisbon and Dakar.

Mr. and Mrs. Cook have been residing in Scunthorpe, where Mr. Cook has been writing technical pamphlets and publications, after their return from Turkey in 1945. During the war Mr. Cook secured a Turkish Government position in Turkey and he remained there just over three years. As soon as the Mediterranean was freed Mrs. Cook joined her husband and spent two years in Turkey.

She was at one time domestic science mistress at Ashby, Scunthorpe.