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Baldock, Hertfordshire
Baldock maps
Historic maps of Baldock and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Baldock maps
Historic map of Baldock
Illustrated Victorian map of Hertfordshire
Historic Map of any Baldock postcode
Baldock books
Displaying 3 of 4 books about Baldock and the local area. View all Baldock books
Hertfordshire Living Memories
Paperback
£14
Hertfordshire Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Hitchin Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13
4 Baldock photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Baldock
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Hertfordshire memories
Seeing the fountain in this picture brings back childhood memories from the 1950/60s of sailing boats up and down the paddling pool at weekends or when your parents took you down on a sunny afternoon. Summer fetes and funfair on the grass area between the paddling pool and Norton Way South, last but not least playing in the small wood behind... [more]
Shared on 05 June 2006
This is not a memory but a plea!
My late wife was born in March, Cambridgeshire but her mother was born in Great Wymondley in 1911, the date being 2nd July, 1911. This was just after the Census of that year. However, I would like to find the rest of the family on the 1911 Census which should give me names and ages of the rest of the family.... [more]
Shared on 19 May 2009
Personally I don't have a memory of the Sun Hotel, but my late mother told me once that she thought her father's family either owned or ran the hotel. Their name was Taylor and they came from Hitchen and the surrounding area.
Shared on 11 May 2009
Our grandparents used to visit Halsey's weekly from Old Stevenage to buy their provisions. Now I with my sister visit regularly especially as we love the new owners' Kirsty and Damien's Tea Room. We take our children for 'tea' there and they think it's a real treat! Christmas simply wouldn't be Christmas without our Christmas Pudding Coffee, and Wild Boar and... [more]
Shared on 30 October 2008
Extracts From Baldock & Hertfordshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Baldock, inspired by Frith photos.
North and East Hertfordshire Photographic Memories
The market town of Baldock developed at the junction of a Roman road and the ancient Icknield Way in the mid 1100s. It is said that the Knights Templar named the town 'Baudacum' - a Latinised from of Baghdad - and that this evolved into Baldock. The market still meets on the original site each week, but on a non-market day... [more]
This is an extract from North and East Hertfordshire Photographic Memories.
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North and East Hertfordshire Photographic Memories
The Icknield Way was a pre-Roman, Iron Age trading route running along the northern border of Hertfordshire. At Baldock it formed the length of White Horse Street and Hitchin Street. Inns and beer houses served the needs of travellers and waggon drivers - the Chequers stands on the left and the George and Dragon faces us in the distance. The photographer... [more]
This is an extract from North and East Hertfordshire Photographic Memories.
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Hertfordshire Photographic Memories
Here we see the junction of White Horse Street and Sun Street, leading to St Mary's Church with its 13th-century tower and prominent spike. The oriental turrets of the mid-Victorian red-brick Methodist chapel rising above Wilson's premises on the right are an appropriate reminder that Baldock's name, bestowed by the Knights Templar in the 12th century, means Baghdad.
This is an extract from Hertfordshire Photographic Memories.
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