"The Dead End Kids," Hazel, Clive, Max and Muriel Enock - 21 Ridgway Road, Barton Seagrave - c1946.
Full name: Muriel Joyce Enock.
Date of birth: Friday, 22nd July, 1927.
Birthplace: Acocks Green, Birmingham, England.
Date of death: Monday, 13th December, 2021 (aged 94 years).
Birthplace: Vancouver Island, Canada.
1927-1935 - 34 (now 54), Dudley Park Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham, England.
Number 34 is second house from the left. Picture taken 1st May 2016 (click to enlarge).
Dudley Park Road viewed from Warwick Road c1930. Number 34 is the third house up on the left (click to enlarge).
Aerial view of Dudley Park Road c1950. Warwick Road runs along the bottom of the image. Number 34 is the fourth-house on the left-hand side going up Dudley Park Road (click to enlarge).
1935-1939 - 74 Heaton Road, Solihull, Birmingham, England.
"Whilst we lived in Solihull, our first detached house, Father boarded the loft and built a model railway ('O' gauge) on trestles which covered most of the available space in the attic. This was electrified by the inclusion of a third live rail, a popular method at that time. One particularly notable feature was a bridge that was a copy of one that spanned the Warwick Road in Olton, which we used to walk under every Sunday on our way to church. Access to the loft was by an extendable ladder, which was secured by hooks to a rail attached to the attic access arrangement, basically a hole in the ceiling!"
"Surprisingly, we children had no idea that Father was working on anything in particular. The first we knew was when the completed layout was presented to me as a present. I had many hours of fun 'in the roof’. That was quite an undertaking by a man who had no training in that area. His specialism was iron and steel production and mining methods. When we later moved, the railway was dismantled and redesigned and installed in the new house - bigger and better!"
1939 - 17, Ridgway Road, Barton Seagrave, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England.
Lodging with Hayden and Kathleen Lock.
January 1940-? - 21, Ridgway Road, Barton Seagrave, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England. Built c1939.
Number 21 in the 1950s (Robert's workshop can be seen to the right of the house) (click to enlarge).
Number 21 in November 2015 (click to enlarge).
2nd October 1956- Canada - left for Canada onboard 'Columbia'.
1957-1965 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1972-1977 - 7908, Huntington Road, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
1982-1988 - 1586, San Juan Avenue, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
1995-1997 - 102-1230 Verdier, Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada.
1998-2017 - 7840, Lochside Drive, 319 Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada.
573A Vaughan Road
1935-1936 - Eastbourne House School (now named Kimichi School), Yardley Road, Acocks Green, England.
Fees per quarter: £3 3s. (worth the equivalent of £215 in 2018).
1936-1938 - Ruckleigh School, Warwick Road, Worlds End, Solihull, England.
Fees per quarter: £5 15s. 6d. (worth the equivalent of £400 in 2018).
1938-1939 - Solihull School for Girls (Malvern Hall) (now St. Martin's School), Brueton Avenue, Solihull, England.
Fees per quarter: £4 2s. (worth the equivalent of £250 in 2018).
1939-c1941 - Kettering High School, Kettering, England.
Leicester College of Technology (De Montfort).
1945-1956 - The Peck Brothers (P.X. Transport), Washbrook Road, Rushden, Northamptonshire, England.
1973 - University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
1981-1988 - Victoria Centre - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
1981 - Assistant Director.
1985 - First Vice-President.
1986-1987 - President.
1988 - National Council Representative.
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada's website contains a recording from this period of Muriel interviewing Dr. Joseph A. Pearce. Click here to listen.
Muriel also worked on Victoria Centre's monthly newsletter SkyNews.
1981-1982 - Tape Recorder.
1982-1987 - Editor.
1986 - National Research Council - Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Observatory Road, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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"At the instigation of his mother, Clive was examined almost at once, especially the legs and the hips. This was because Muriel had been born without a right-hand hip socket, and the defect passed unnoticed for months, with a result that her hip was seriously misplaced, and had to be in plaster for three years. Even now, at the age of ten, she limps and takes a smaller shoe on the right foot." - Joan Enock
"Clive was also very plucky in the way of hurts and wounds, but in this respect Muriel could equal and surpass him. For, during all the agony of having her leg wrenched back into its socket, she did not make a sound, and only after the nurses and specialists had all gone, did she turn to her father, and ask if it looked as if she had been crying." - Joan Enock
Page updated 15th, October 2023.
