In the summer of 1941 Enid Blyton alighted from a steam locomotive at Corfe Castle station in the Isle of Purbeck.
She took a short walk through the village, turned right at the war memorial and then she saw Corfe Castle for the very first time.
As she wandered its jagged ruins she would have been as giddy as her hyperventilating heroes, the Famous Five, for she had discovered the setting for their very first adventure.
In Five on a Treasure Island, Blyton set … (View original article)