Category Archives: Enid Stamp Taylor

I think it is something of an importance to include this picture of Enid taken in 1934 whilst she relaxed with those around her that really mattered in her life. The shot was taken in the back garden of her West London home by Enid’s husband Sidney Colton.

This very rare snapshot is thought to be taken on Hampstead Heath, North London soon after Enid Stamp Taylor’s marriage to diamond merchant Sidney Colton. Left is Agnes Stamp Taylor, Enid and Sidney. The car is a Rolls Royce and the picture is seemingly taken by Agnes’s second husband Sidney Stobart around 1930.

A place where Enid Stamp Taylor loved to stay and relax when not working in Theatre or Film was the residential Velhurst Farm at Alfold, Surrey, in the south of England.

In this wartime photograph, Enid is picture with a family cousin during one of the many social evenings at Velhurst Farm.

Mother and Daughter… Enid Stamp Taylor and daughter Robin Anne…

Thought to have been taken in 1943, the picture comes from Robin Anne’s own collection of images…

Note the very 40s look hairstyle, although, a fashion I feel, did not do Enid full justice…

At 9 years old Robin Anne is a quint essential schoolgirl having been educated at an all-girls school in Brighton.

This previously unpublished picture of Enid Stamp Taylor comes from her daughter Robin Anne’s own private collection. It shows a more unguarded Enid relaxing in the spring sunshine of 1935 in the back garden of her home in West London. The picture is thought to have been taken by Robin Anne’s Nanny. 

There are many more images of Actress Enid Stamp Taylor, and much more information to be found by clicking Enid Stamp Taylor on my website.

The wartime evacuation of London’s children was a very key moment in the 1940′s, and here Enid Stamp Taylor plays her part in this promotional picture taken in her Park Lane apartment. ‘Standing in’ as an evacuee is Enid’s daughter Robin Anne. The evacuation of London’s children to far-flung parts of the United Kingdom is a subject that has been well debated over the years. It was a move thankfully that could never be contemplated today.

Three Generations…

This shot taken in 1934 depicts three generations of the Stamp Taylor family…

Agnes Stamp Taylor, mother to Enid Stamp Taylor, and Enid’s daughter Robin Anne.

The picture was loaned to me from Robin Anne’s own photo collection of her mother and grandmother.

The simple art of the classic beauty is delightfully portrayed in this early picture of Enid Stamp Taylor.

Thought to have been taken when Enid was in her late teens, it shows the deep sentimentality and loving way that she displayed throughout her short life.

Tragedy beset Enid’s life; losing her younger brother at the age of only 9 years, then others members of her family. It is truly remarkable that we can now look back on this lovely lady’s life some One Hundred Years on, and appreciate the talent and effort that she gave to the early British Film and Stage.