The brilliant Baldock Charter Fair is back!

Baldock High Street is hosting the Charter Fair for its annual jamboree of fun.

The Baldock Charter Fair is held every year on the High Street in early October and the event has been running more or less since 1199, when King John I granted the fairs its royal charter.

The fair, organised by Abbott's Amusements, will run on the town's High Street from Monday (October 2) until Wednesday (October 4), from 3pm until 10pm each day.

Baldock is hosting three days of games, rides and street food, with the fair in its current guise run by Abbott family under the name Abbott's Amusements.

Prior to the Second World War all the rides were steam powered.

In the evocative vintage Edwardian black and white photograph below, you can see a helter skelter and a big wheel.

People came from far and wide with all rides a penny a time, which included the roundabouts, coconut shies and toffee apples.

Rewind: Picture of Baldock Charter Fair. CREDIT: Herts Memories