Edith Baldock News Today

There must be many readers who can recall Baldock’s the tobacconist at 71 High Street. On the opposite side of the street from Marks and Spencer’s, it briefly escaped demolition when the Chantry Centre was built in 1969 but was among a short line of shops that were replaced by modern buildings in the mid-1970s. Up to the last it remained an old-fashioned tobacconist and confectioners, with a diverse assortment of other goods as well. Here, for instance, there are bunches of walking stic...