Lives in Cricket No 49 - Enid Bakewell

11 Chapter Two Youth Enid was born on December 16, 1940. She was Enid Turton, born in Newstead Colliery Village, built to house miners at Newstead Colliery. Only pit workers and railway employees were allowed tenancies in the village. Enid’s father, Thomas Leonard Turton (often ‘Len’), was 42 when she was born, her mother Mabel Alice (nee Amos and often ‘May’) was 40. They had lost a baby six years earlier, and Thomas had even studied midwifery in case of need. Enid thinks they were helped by their neighbours from up the street, Elsie and Horace Watson before the midwife arrived. Enid recalls her parents: ‘Mum had had to leave school early as did dad - that’s what you did in those days. Mum’s mother had died when she was 18 years old. Her step- mum was named Edith - which I often am called by mistake. Annoying - as it makes me feel ancient and what little I remember of her is not good. My grandad - the only one I knew -had been a railway signalman, working from a signal box. In between trains he tended a patch around it and somehow taught himself the Latin names of the flowers. Enid and mum May and dad Len.