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Welcome to the website of the Enid Blyton Society. Formed in early 1995, the aim of the Society is to provide a focal point for collectors and enthusiasts of Enid Blyton through its magazine The Enid Blyton Society Journal, issued three times a year, its annual Enid Blyton Day, an event which attracts in excess of a hundred members, and its website. Most of the website is available to all, but Society Members have exclusive access to secret parts as well! Join the Society today and start receiving your copy of the Journal three times a year. Don't forget also that we have an Online Shop where you'll find back issues of the Journal as well as rare Enid Blyton biographies, guides and more.

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Posted by John on October 6, 2008
I have inherited a box full of old Enid Blyton books. How do I know if any are valuable?
BarneyBarney says: You could keep an eye on eBay to get an idea what prices those books typically fetch. If some of them never seem to turn up on eBay, try putting the titles into www.bookfinder.com and see what various booksellers are asking for them. Condition needs to be taken into account, of course.
Posted by Ilsa on October 5, 2008
I've had another thought about Jinty's question on Oct 4th. If it is possibly a book by another author of which she is thinking, maybe it is Malcolm Saville's "Treasure at Amory's", a Lone Pine adventure where the Mortons and Warrenders have a holiday on Romney Marsh. A Roman Road features in this story, and it is on the coast.
Posted by Stephen on October 5, 2008
Barney, I concur with you pertaining to lack of indoor "bathrooms" (a name in American terminology that includes toilets). For instance in Five Have A Mystery To Solve which was first published in 1962, people were still drawing water from wells as late as that time as that altercation between Anne and Wilfrid suggests.
Posted by FM on October 4, 2008
Is there any reference in the Mystery Series to toilets?
BarneyBarney says: Enid Blyton seems to have avoided referring to anything so "indelicate" in her books! I don't recall any references to toilets in the Mystery series or elsewhere but it would be interesting from a sociological point of view if they had been mentioned in passing. Many people would only have had access to outside lavatories when Enid Blyton began her writing career in the 1920s, whereas indoor lavatories and bathrooms would have been the norm by the time she typed her final story in the 1960s.
Posted by Ilsa on October 4, 2008
I wonder if Jinty is thinking of "Five on a Secret Trail" where the Five go camping on a common not far from their seaside home and discover someone excavating the site of a Roman camp?

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