Taylour was educated at Miss Fletcher's boarding school in Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, and in 1919 went to Alexandra College, then in Earlsfort Terrace, where the Conrad Hotel now stands. She left school in 1922 and joined her family in Berkshire, where they had moved following the creation of the Irish Free State which had led to the end of the Royal Irish Constabulary, her father's employer. Her mother was terminally ill and Taylour looked after her and the home until her mother died in 1925. She had learned to drive a car at the age of 12 and learned how to ride a motorcycle in her new home. Following her mother's death, she used the prize money she had earned in school - a £50 prize for housecraft - to buy her first motorcycles.
