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The post office was opposite.

This scene is little changed: the Volunteer Inn, minus whitewash, survives along with the phone box; behind it is the Old Post Office.

The Post Office had occupied these premises since the 1930s. The brick building on the other side of the road was the school, which had been in the adjacent white house until 1851.

Behind the old post office, now an extended house, is the railway line, with the nearest station at Kiplingcotes.

To the right is the old school house, now today's post office. Far right is the base of the market cross.

On the right is the Cliffe post office, with a pillar box outside. The Black Bull pub (centre) was another property of the Maidstone brewers Style & Winch.

It was for many years an important staging post on the Hastings to Brighton turnpike road.

Interesting that the Post Office is spelled without the hyphens, but spellings, as we have noted, are a peculiar Welsh idiosyncrasy and every town, village and street can have a slightly or totally dissimilar

The wooden posts are positioned to assist coaches at times when these waters are in flood, although the abandoned cartwheel suggests that not all vehicles made the crossing successfully.

A post-type windmill has been moved from Lowfield Heath and reconstructed in full working order, and is open to visitors. The village is now very close to the ever-expanding Gatwick Airport.

Over on the left, near Liptons, is Below Bar Post Office.

The reassuringly solid-looking Post Office is brick built and faces the Old Ship Inn. Straight-backed cars, complete with running boards, can be seen.

The building to the left is the rear of the China Bowl, which fronts onto the market place near the main entrance to the church, where once the stocks and whipping post stood.

Over on the left, near Liptons, is Below Bar Post Office.

Another well-known multi-national dominates this view; the branch has been here since about 1930, though the left-hand extension is a post-War development on the site of the Cinema de Luxe, which burned

The house on the left was (and still is) Hallow's post office.

Here we see the Post Office complete with children and a horse and trap out- side.

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

Here we see a quiet scene in the centre of a village that has become overwhelmed by post-war bungalow developments and surrounded by caravan and camping parks.

This sleepy row of terraced cottages has, in fact altered very little, although there is no longer a post office here.

In the simpler days of the 1950s, village post offices across Dorset were places where the whole community might meet and were a vital lifeline to the outside world.

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.

Note how the whipping post has three arm positions, according to the height of the offender.

To the right are the post-war council houses and the filling station in the Globe Hotel car park. The blue sign for the M1 (left) is a new addition to the countryside.