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Enid's Homes

	Enid's birthplace - the flat above shops located in Lordship Lane, East Dulwich (circled in red). Sadly, the actual house - 354 Lordship Lane - was bombed during World War 2 and replaced with the modern block to the left of the photo. You can get an idea of the style of what her actual house from those standing on the right with the attractive windows. Thank you to Cliff Watkins for this as well as the other recent photographs of Enid's various homes and the accompanying information. Cliff lives in Beckenham, leads guided tours based on the 30 years she lived there, and is currently writing a Blyton biography.
	The plaque on the wall at Enid's birthplace in East Dulwich.
	Her family home at 95 Chaffinch Rd, Beckenham, where they lived from 1898 to 1908.
	95 Chaffinch Road as it is today, wonderfully preserved with the original windows. Inside, it is much bigger than might be imagined and the original layout was very well designed. There was no garden but the front of the house was not overlooked giving the location a rural feeling.
	Looking along Chaffinch Road as it is today. Most of the properties look much as they did when Enid's parents brought her to beckenham in 1897. The road is named after the nearby Chaffinch Brook.
	35 Clockhouse Road, Beckenham (circled in red) with number 31 (circled in blue). Enid lived at number 35 from 1902 to 1907 and at number 31 from 1907 to 1912. At the back of 31, between the end of the Blytons' garden and the railway line used by Enid's father to go to work in London, was a marshalling yard, used mainly to provide coal to the neighbourhood. This area has now been built over for a small estate of houses, coincidentally called Malory Close. See the original advertisement for this estate in The Treasure Cave. Built with a rear extension, Number 31 is in fact larger than 35; giving more room for Enid's father's piano and book collection. Sadly this house was the place where Enid's parents broke up and the staircase at the top of which Enid and her brothers crouched listening to rows below is still there.
	Enid's fourth house in Elm Road, Beckenham.
	The Baptist Church that Enid attended, located at the end of Elm Road, Beckenham. She was baptised here in 1910.
	The Baptist Church hall, where Enid attended Sunday School classes.
	Enid's 5th beckenham home, 13 Westfield Road. She moved there with her mother and brothers after her father left.
	Enid's sixth house at 34 Oakwood Avenue, Beckenham was the family home of her school friend Mary Attenborough where, off and on, Enid stayed for 6 years from 1918 to 1924. Mary became quite a famous artist under her married name, Mary Bell.
	A plate on Elfin Cottage (located in Shortlands Road, Shortlands) commemorating Blyton's time there
	Old Thatch, which she shared with her first husband Hugh Pollock
	The Old Well at Old Thatch
	The pond at Old Thatch
	The dark, low-roofed dining room at Old Thatch
	Old Thatch as it is today. Thank you to the current owners of Old Thatch, Jacky and David Hawthorne for allowing me to use this photograph.
	The famous Green Hedges, now no longer, but was located in Penn Road, Beaconsfield
	Looking up the drive towards Green Hedges
	The back porch of Green Hedges, one of Enid's favourite places
	The cobbled path at Green Hedges
	The beautiful formal rose garden at Green Hedges

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