Journal 46

[MJE]

I've heard of The Enid Blyton Book & Ephemera Collectors' Society but it hasn't existed for some years. What was their magazine like - a substantial read or more like a newsletter?

     I think more like a newsletter - but there were some articles in the magazines - which are far smaller than the E.B.S. Journal - maybe only 16 pages an issue. So I'd say it's less substantial than either "Green Hedges" or the E.B.S. Journal; but worth having if you come across it. (I fear that recently, now that I'm also looking for obscure things like this, I may have already passed beyond the event horizon of the Enid Blyton Collectors' Black Hole!)

Regards, Michael.

[Anita Bensoussane]

Thanks, Michael. Copies of Green Hedges Magazine and the Journal sometimes turn up on eBay (I think there's an Australian equivalent of eBay but I suppose they're less likely to turn up there). Collecting a whole set of either would no doubt take a great deal of time and patience though.

[Tony Summerfield]

I belonged to The Enid Blyton Book & Ephemera Collectors' Society and somewhere I have some of their Newsletters, but the majority had very little in them, more a vehicle for Richard Walker, who ran the Society, to sell items. It folded about 14 years ago and we then changed our name from The Enid Blyton Literary Society to The Enid Blyton Society. We had always felt that Literary was a bit pretentious, but we weren't able to drop it until we were the only Enid Blyton Society.

Most of their meetings took place up North where Richard Walker lived, but I went to one in Wales after a lengthy drive where I was met by Richard who told me that I was the only one attending the meeting! It was very brief and took place in the street!!

A magazine which I quite liked although it was very simple was the one produced by Darrell Waters. It folded in 1997 when Chorion took over, but I have all 21 copies that were issued.

[Moonraker]

I belonged to The Enid Blyton Book & Ephemera Collectors' Society [and]
I went to one [of their meetings] in Wales after a lengthy drive where I was met by Richard who told me that I was the only one attending the meeting! It was very brief and took place in the street!!

That's the sort of gathering to arrange! No speakers to book, no caterers to employ, no chairs/tables to arrange... He seems to have cracked it! Did you take any photos, Tony?

[Julie2owlsdene]

but I went to one in Wales after a lengthy drive where I was met by Richard who told me that I was the only one attending the meeting! It was very brief and took place in the street!!

So what happened if you needed the toilet!!!

[Moonraker]

Trust you to think of that!

[Tony Summerfield]

He had actually hired a room in a pub, but he cancelled that a day or two before. I should have added that it wasn't really a wasted Journey as the street that I mentioned was in Hay on Wye, which at that time had between 20 and 30 secondhand bookshops for me to browse in! In fairness I should also add that I went to another of his meetings which was well attended and I even have a photo of that as it was at Old Thatch. Jacky and David Hawthorne had just bought it and it looked very different then.

[Anita Bensoussane]

Interesting that Darrell Waters Ltd. produced a magazine for a while, Tony.

[Paul Austin]

I just want to thank various people for very kind PMs about the fact that Tony has published some of what I've written to the forums and to the Yahoo group.

[Eddie Muir]

Interesting that Darrell Waters Ltd. produced a magazine for a while, Tony.

I have the following copies of the Enid Blyton Newsletter:

No 17 (February 1996)
No 18 (June 1996)
No 19 (October 1996)
No 20 (February 1997)
No 21 (August 1997)

No 21 is a Centenary Edition. Were their any issues after this one? Does anyone have any earlier editions, i.e. Nos 1 - 16? Maybe you have a complete set, Tony.

I have a complete set of Michael Rouse's Green Hedges Magazine (41 issues : January 1992 to Summer 2002).

[Tony Summerfield]

Yes, I do have a complete set, Eddie, from No. 1. The last two were done by Chorion and Gillian was very cross about it as they simply used it as a vehicle for advertising the various products that were on the market.

I don't have a full set of Green Hedges and I am not sure why not as I was a fully paid up member until the end, obviously Michael Rouse just didn't send them to me.

[MJE]

I have the following copies of the Enid Blyton Newsletter:

No 17 (February 1996)
No 18 (June 1996)
No 19 (October 1996)
No 20 (February 1997)
No 21 (August 1997)

     I'm getting a bit confused now about the different publications. Is the Enid Blyton Newsletter the Darrell Waters one just mentioned?; or are you referring to the current publication, the Enid Blyton Society Journal (even though its name is a bit different)? Or yet a separate publication from either of these?

Regards, Michael.

[Eddie Muir]

The Enid Blyton Newsletter is the one produced by Darrell Waters Ltd.

[Moonraker]

Another splendid Journal - thanks to all contributors and of course Tony, for putting it all together and posting them!

[Ming]

A magazine which I quite liked although it was very simple was the one produced by Darrell Waters. It folded in 1997 when Chorion took over, but I have all 21 copies that were issued.

It does look very lovely. Good to see 'my' Kiki on Jack's shoulder!