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Was this young Moore resident off to spend her pocket money at the local Post Office?

This post mill ceased working in 1947, but its fabric and machinery are maintained by English Heritage. It is thought that a mill has stood here for 700 years.

Ferries crossed at this point since the 18th century, carrying not only people, carriages and goods but, from 1800, the post for the Truro coach.

Buildings opposite the signal box have all gone, but some shops and the Post Office with its domed cupola still remain.

Note the pony and trap setting off for the road to Frome to the left of what is now a general store and post office. On the riverbank there is now a small pumping station.

Apart from the old post office, much of the left-hand side survives, but on the right only The William Hardwicke pub remains amid rebuilding, including the 1930s Bobby's department store, after which the

This is a useful spot in the street: the Post Office is on the left, the Trustee Savings Bank is adjacent to the bus, and the shiny new frontage of the Co-op is second on the right.

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.

This post-war council development can be dated by the medallions which were set into the front brickwork at the time of building.

The post box is still there.

It is very ornately carved - notice, for example, the carved head on the corner post to the left.

On the banks of the Little Stour, whose waters flow peacefully under the bridge on the left, the small general stores and post office on the right served this little hidden village with its 18th- and 19th-century

On Bridge Street, J T Jeffery's shop was later pulled down to accommodate the extension to the post office.

The university library is considered to be one of the finest post-Second World War buildings in the city.

The Post Office c1955 Melbury Osmond is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to the Arundell family. It stayed in their possession until about a century ago.

Two RAC patrolmen saunter past the Hook Road post office (right), ignoring the few motor vehicles on the road.

A handsome brick building houses the post office and store in this tiny hamlet. Smokers had not become the social outcasts of today, as the Players sign affirms.

Another view of Low Row, showing the Post Office and the Methodist Chapel on the right.

It is still the village post office.

The 16th-century thatched Plough public house with its low ceilings, exposed beams and stone flagged floor is still open today, but the post office, across the road, has closed since the time this photograph

By the mid 1950s, post-war rationing was coming to an end, and local shops were once again offering a choice of goods.

The range to the right of the Post Office has been rebuilt as Lipton House. Stead and Simpson have traded from a shop on this site since at least 1898.

Like Morgan's the confectioner's (C240004), this shop (left), a post office and grocer's run by Pardey & Johnson, was built at the end of the 19th century.

Extra road traffic has also made the road outside the busy village stores and post office (just to the left of the car) a frequent bottleneck.