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St Mary's church is best known for its most unusual detached three-storey belfry.

The northern end of the Post Office (just visible down Basket Street in the centre) would now be on Royal Parade outside Dingles.

This view shows Lake's Art and Literature Shop on the left and part of the main Post Office on the right.

The post office and stores survives. Nearby is the 17th-century Knatchbull Arms, and just below the Square is a new footbridge and streamside walks to caves.

On the day Queen Victoria died, the postmistress at Lee`s old post office was taking down a telegram announcing the Queen`s death when she was struck by lightning in the left eye and blinded

At the height of the coaching era, Maidenhead was littered with posting inns either side of the High Street. Some of these hotels continued to thrive during the age of the motor car.

Long before this photograph was taken, Slough was an important staging post on the Bath Road.

One of the earliest permanent buildings in military Aldershot, dating from the 1850s, these buildings served as home to countless soldiers for a century, before being swept away in the frenzy of post-war

In the days when Botley was an important staging post on the coach route, the village boasted as many as fourteen inns.

It is lunch time in the village; the post office is closed, and the lady street vendor is resting on her cart.

Like so many villages, however, Ullenhall has lost its shops, post office, school and vicarage.

On the right is Agricultural Hall, built in 1882, in more recent years used as the city's main post office, and now as the headquarters of Anglia Television.

The mill was built in 1857 on the site of an earlier post mill. The mill was worked by the Foster family until 1946.

This post mill was moved to here from Aldringham in 1922, and was altered to drive a waterpump to provide water supplies for a holiday village. The house in the clouds conceals a water storage tank.

Forty pairs of horses were maintained at the inn for posting.

Buildings such as Woking's fine, if somewhat dull, Old Bank had no place in the exciting, post-war redeveloped Woking.

Also prominent in the picture is the General Post Office, opened in 1818 and scene of the opening of the Easter rising in 1916.

Opposite the Cock Inn (left) stands the tiny village Post Office, with a pensioner eyeing the photographer suspiciously.

It was redeveloped in 1885, when the old Market House Inn to its left became the post office, and again in 1937.

The post office stores stands on a corner in the centre of the village near the church, and is still trading today.

In this huge hall, cotton merchants from all over Lancashire did their bartering, and many a fortune was made or lost.

On the left is the red brick and stone Lloyds Bank building, with its fretted skyline, while to the right is the neo-classical Post Office, built in 1881.

In the 1880s and 90s post offices often opened longer hours than they do today; from 7.00am to 9.00pm was common.

Picket Post is a tiny hamlet on the high road between Ringwood and the New Forest. It is a convenient place to stop for tea, sit on a bench and watch the world go by.