Enid Blyton first visited Dorset at Easter 1931 with her husband
Hugh Pollock; she was aged 34 and pregnant with her first child.
She would later return to spend many holidays in, and around the
town of Swanage in South Dorset's Isle of Purbeck, together with
her two daughters: Gillian (born 1931) and Imogen (born 1935), and
later with her second husband Kenneth Darrell Waters.What was it
about this particular region that would draw her back, time and
time again, and what pursuits did she choose to follow whilst she
was here? In order to find out, we accompany Enid as she walks,
swims off Swanage beach, plays golf, takes the steam train to Corfe
Castle, and the paddle-steamer to Bournemouth.Although Enid's
stories were drawn from her imagination, this itself was fed and
nurtured by external experiences - in the case of the 'Famous Five'
books, largely by what she had seen in Dorset. Whereas it is
probably futile to attempt to match a specific real life location
with her fictitious ones, nevertheless it is a fascinating exercise
to retrace her steps, and having done so, to reflect on those
topographical features which might have impinged upon her
subconscious (or what she called her 'under mind') whilst she was
writing the stories. It is often the case that when an author bases
his work on a certain place, the subsequent discovery by the reader
of that place's true identity may come as a disappointment. Not so
in this case, for the real life locations are equally as
interesting and exciting as the nail biting adventures of 'The
Famous Five' themselves
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