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The Wheatsheaf Inn, for many years an important staging post on the Brighton to Hastings route, was rebuilt in 1886.

The water pump has been refurbished and joined by a telephone box, a cast iron sign and lamp posts.

Posing for the photographer, or genuinely posting a letter? It is hard to tell, but the beribboned young girl with the ringlets and the delightfully impractical dress is worth a picture.

The post office on the right superseded the toll house on the turnpike (1711). Note the semicircular door made to reflect the similar shape of the toll keeper's office.

This photograph appears to show a quiet village where nothing much happens apart from an amble down to the post office to buy a few stamps.

The post office stores is partly hidden behind the leaves on the left.

The post office and general stores are still at the same site today at the summit of the hill and near the crossroads (though the proprietors have changed).

Basically a grocery shop and off-licence, it also accommodated Wickford's post office around the time of our picture. The in-store café can be seen to the extreme left.

This solidly-built Edwardian shop is still trading as the Post Office, despite some alteration; it stands on the way down to the former station site.

As well as retail outlets and the main post office, there were a number of buildings along Queen Street which dated from the earlier decades of the 19th century, including the Mechanics’ Institute

The tall iron posts support the power wire. Amongst this modernity, there are still gas-fuelled street lights.

In 1909 the Post Office - the white building with the sloping roof - was destroyed by floods, and moved into the building next door.

Looking back up North Street towards the Parade and Market House, with the Post Office on the left, as it still is today.

The post-war tennis courts on the left are no longer there, and the grounds are now the venue for events such as open-air dramas and historical re-enactments.

Curl Brothers owned the huge shop on the right of the picture, which was floodlit at night by the eight lamp posts erected on the pavement. Curls was a popular forerunner of today's department stores.

Notice the tram (advertising the Cornish Post newspaper) parked at the terminus of the newly opened Camborne and Redruth Tramway - this small operation lasted until 1927.

Around the time this picture was taken, a number of post-medieval pottery kilns were found in the village.

In this view the Beehive shop and the dormered cottage beyond survive, but the buildings beyond have been rebuilt for Townsends and the Post Office.

Over the years it has lost one chimneystack. All the telegraph posts have also disappeared. The fence is more substantial now, as it is a tall green hedge.

Lurking behind the post office is the parish church, which became a cathedral in 1919.

The stocks, along with the pillory and the whipping post, were instruments of punishment at one time in use throughout England.

In the distance the post office and house remain, but the next house has been demolished.

Controversially, he removed the plasterwork - thus exposing the timber-framing - and disposed of the 500-year- old arches between the posts on the ground floor.

David Collins was the owner of the Post Office Stores and chemist's shop(centre right). The awning beyond is Chilliston's General Store.