Snippets from Yorkshire Post

[Maureen1954]

Just found some old snippets from the Yorkshire Post, there are about 7 pages and have different topics to read and also informative.

When page appears just type in their search bar Enid Blyton and the links will come up so please enjoy...

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Cheers

Maureen

[Katharine]

Interesting Maureen. I had to chuckle at the absurdity of the blocked e-mail to the school, and the name they used. Had a bit of a shock when I saw the article about Hugh's wife, I don't know how I'd missed her name before, but Ida Crowe was also the name of a close (now deceased) relative of mine. It's such an unsual surname I shall have to do a spot of research to see if we are related, although I think I can safely say that the Ida Crowe I knew never met Hugh Pollock.

[Katharine]

Just doing a spot of Googling about Ida Crowe, and discovered that one of the names she wrote under was Jane Beaufort. I wonder if she realised that Beaufort Mansions, in Beaufort Street was where Enid and Hugh started their married life? Or maybe she used that name before she met him.

[Maureen1954]

Very interesting Katherine re Ida Julia Crowe...

According to Wikipedia she was an supposed illegitimate daughter of a supposed Russian Duke...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Pollock" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Her mothers name was Fanny Osborn born 1874 in Forest Gate Essex..

[Anita Bensoussane]

Just doing a spot of Googling about Ida Crowe, and discovered that one of the names she wrote under was Jane Beaufort. I wonder if she realised that Beaufort Mansions, in Beaufort Street was where Enid and Hugh started their married life?

Hugh and Ida also lived in Beaufort Mansions later - but in a different flat, I think.