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

A view of the High Street showing—on the left—the Town Hall of 1900, which housed Barclays Bank and the Post Office downstairs.

An early 20th-century view of that bastion of English life, the Post Office. Here is a lovely half- timbered building in this picturesque little village on the Canterbury road.

At the height of the British Empire, the colleges took in the children of military officers and civil servants posted to far-flung corners of Queen Victoria's realm.

These children are part of the post-war baby boom. Although on a busy road junction in central London, the wards had rural views thanks to the extensive Brompton Cemetery at the back.

Stanhill Post Office was the home of James Hargreaves, the inventor in 1764 of the Spinning Jenny. His invention made an enormous contribution to the textile industry.

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.

Street furniture is changing with the introduction of the ugly concrete street lamp post outside the timber-framed building that was Beach's bookshop.

This is a quiet mid-afternoon picture, deserted save for workmen re-fitting the shopfront to the post office on the left.

D & E Flack's (left) was a general store and post office serving the area north of the Southend road. By the end of the 1950s, outlying shops were competing with the new Town Centre development.

The Posting House on the right is a reminder of the earlier age of horse-drawn transport.

The Sanctuary is now well surfaced to accomodate motor traffic, and a 'Keep Left' notice has been fixed to the lamp-post at the end of Queen Victoria Street.

Mr P T Andrews, grocer and provision merchant, ran the Post Office Stores and made deliveries throughout the district.

Further along Park Street we find Lower Gordon Road; the Post Office, run by a Mr H L Love, is on the corner. The premises have since been converted into a private house.

Under the Mendips, the Old Post House (by the phone box) and Weare House (to its left), now private houses, and the Lamb Inn (behind the photographer) offered refreshment and accommodation to travellers

A London Transport RTL-class bus on the 87 approaches the Clock Tower from White Post Corner.

Ingatestone's livelihood came from its position on the London-Chelmsford road. Even the 'stone' in its name may refer to a milestone.

The weatherboarded building on the right has served as the post office for many years, and the white building on the left is the Blue Boar.

Two little girls have been pressed into service to add human interest to this picture of the rustically styled post office.

At the height of the British Empire, the colleges took in the children of military officers and civil servants posted to far-flung corners of Queen Victoria’s realm.

Stone urns were added to the gate posts at a later date.

The village general stores and post office once housed its own manual telephone exchange.

The nearby post office is surely one of the most delightful of such buildings anywhere in England, situated as it is in a genuine Queen Anne building.

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