Baldock: More of its Kights and Days
by John Stanley Rider

PREFACE
Quite an interest was stimulated in both the ancient and recent history of the town when — mainly as a local Souvenir for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977— a small book, “BALDOCK — a Brief Historial Review”, was published. Long ‘out-of-print’, there have been requests for its re-issue, but now the opportunity is being taken to not only up-date and enlarge, but also include a fresh set of illustrations. Among these are rare and recently discovered items of local interest, which will perhaps commend it to those who have the original book, as well as to new residents and readers who may like to know something of the Baldock story.

A writer well knows that a work like this is as long as it wants to be, and has to decide what to leave out as well as what to put in and must eventually stop somewhere! This is a book for the general reader, and not a complete history; all I have done is set down that which might interest, inform, entertain — perhaps even educate, but not oppress with dry-as-dust detail as yet more of Baldock Knights and Days are put on record.

John S. Rider.