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Notice the very decorative lamp post on the right-hand side of the road in the photograph below.

A building has architectural pretensions on the right, in front of which the gas lamp post, with leaning boys, appears to be standing in the gutter and not on the pavement.

Viewed from the direction of Bryn Euryn, the prominence of the Victoria Pier is clear; Colwyn Bay sought to rival nearby Llandudno as the main attraction, as post-war mass tourism brought

In the early to mid 19th century Mrs Wigley kept a post office in one of these cottages.

The wooden posts on the right are all that remains of the two original piers. The white wooden huts on the left were used by the local air-training

Hook, a sprawling commuter settlement, was expanding 40 years ago, and this picture shows the village stores on the right, the post office next door to it and Lloyds Bank just beyond.

Note the village post office on the left, and the other sturdy, gritstone-built Georgian cottages with their uniformly white-painted doors and windows.

This view shows the road layout, sign posts and lighting before modernisation. In spite of the cars, it has a village feel to it, with pedestrians and cyclists unaffected by traffic.

According to a directory of 1899, it then consisted of a post office, a blacksmith, a grocery shop, a bakery-cum-beer shop, and a few farms.

photograph H167008, here we have a rainy morning in downtown Hadleigh by the Rectory Road shops.A pram is parked outside the butcher's shop, whilst on the opposite side of the road outside the Post

This town, which stands above the Colne in the north of the county about five miles from Braintree, was once famous for its silk and crepe.This wonderful post-war view looks up the High Street, with

The third house from the right, slightly lower than its neighbours, is now the post office. Otherwise, the scene is little changed today.

The 1930s Shoe Inn can be seen between the post office and the thatched cottage.

The Post Office boasts a range of enamel advertising signs. Behind it is the parish church of St Catherine with its large flint tower.

Note the cycles outside the building - this was a good stop-off point on the way home from work for workers from the docks and post office.

On the right is Waterloo Cottage, which until the mid 1970s was the post office and village shop.

Hemmings' shopfront is a collage of mid 1950s consumer wares: for the smoker, there are Woodbines, Player's and Gold Flake; for the reader, Picture Post, Home Notes and the Leader.

Here we see the post-1953 sea wall, stepped here to allow access to the beach.

The building is far older than it looks, and has a continuous jetty and fine crown post roof timbers.

It is the furthest away of these three shops (on the corner) which is the Post Office.

A corner of the village near the church with Ching and Sons' wine merchants, general shop and post office.

Postbridge takes its name from the arched bridge that was built to carry the post road from Princetown in the south-west to Moretonhampstead in the north-east.

The stocks and whipping post were moved from their previous position against the Bridewell wall to protect them from the 'increase in traffic' generated by the newly- built Fire Station.

Beyond, then housing the Post Office, is Journey's End, which takes its name from local landowner R C Sherriff's best-known play. Ducks Bottom is behind The Chalet (top left).