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The staff of Askrigg post office pose for the cameraman.

A grey day in post-war Lytham. The photograph gives the impression that the town is waiting for someone or some-thing to lift it from gloom and despondency.

Beyond is the old post office, which still retains the original sign on the wall.

Several holiday camps were built near Lowestoft in the post-war period. Rogerson Hall was always regarded as being more 'up-market' than the rest.

On the right of the picture is the village post office and shop.

The delivery truck parked on the left hand side is outside the post office. The Ford Popular car seems to want all the road.

Notice the whipping post on the right. The shelter above is of a later date, for miscreants were seldom protected from the vagaries of the English weather.

The white cottage on the left used to be the Post Office, before it was moved to the other side of the road in the 1930s.

Martin's General Stores, on the right, also served as the local post office for this pretty village south of Frensham Ponds, which William Cobbett failed to reach one stormy night in November 1822 after

The post office is on the right. In the 1820s, when Robert Walker was the postmaster, there was a collection and delivery every day during the bathing season.

No children play outside the post office, which is now a private residence.

The post office and general stores in Leigh Street was, and still is, important to the community. The building opposite has been demolished, and now forms the entrance to Leigh Close.

This photograph was taken from roughly the site of the old Post Office.

The building on the left was the General Post Office from 1898 to 1972, and the building in the centre was designed by Alfred Waterhouse for the Prudential Assurance Company.

From about 1600 Broadway was a thriving staging post, and horse-drawn carriages by the dozen stopped here to feed and water en route from London to Worcester - a journey of more than 17 hours.

The tall building in the distance to the right of The Queen's Head was then Matlock's post office.

On the left, outside the post office, two postmen are among the group eyeing the camera.

On the right is the post office; near here is the point that the Ordnance Survey declared was the centre of the British Isles. To mark the spot, they erected a public telephone box.

In the centre of the picture, the George and Dragon, with its quaint porch and balcony supported on brackets, was originally an old posting inn.

Mithian lies just off the Perranporth to St Agnes road. Here at the top end of the hamlet, the nearest end of the thatched house is the post office, with a telephone kiosk outside.

The Post Office and the King's Arms Hotel on the right are still there today.

The front of the premises of the post office and general stores has recently been changed with the opening up of the front of the part behind the telephone box.

Farleigh Hungerford's post office closed in the 1990s, but the village retains a school, a church and a pub.

The post office scene is virtually unchanged, except that the sun canopy has gone, and bicycle parking replaces the postbox under the cigarette advertisement, which has also vanished.