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The Old Lion and Lamb was formerly a coaching inn, one of the oldest posting houses on the Great North Road, and associated with the Bishops of Lincoln's palace at Buckden Towers.

On the left of the High Street are the premises of Henfield Post Office and the National Provincial Bank, now defunct.

In the centre of the photograph behind the advertising hoarding is the post office, which later became a wine bar.

The quaint old building to the right of centre still serves as the village post office and shop today. It is quite small, but it is elaborately decorated on its front outer wall.

The post office has gone, to be replaced by Dust & Co, who sold soft furnishings and linen at this shop. The chemist has also gone. Note the pram parked by the spring.

The Post Office Stores provided provisions, small household goods and postal services for the villagers.

An old lamp-post stands at the end of the street.

A thatched cottage is the post office. A sign on the rickety telegraph pole advertises a public telephone, and fixed to the nearby wall is a bus timetable proclaiming that this is a fare stage.

During one year there would be other changes; a zebra crossing was later removed, and the older lamp posts with wrought iron branches would be discarded in favour of tall concrete poles.

Nowadays, we have been sucked in to thinking that convenience shopping is something wonderful, village shops, post offices, and even pubs are in decline.

The little post office no doubt did a brisk trade, doubling up as a general store.

One of the pubs in the village is called the Kremlin - most appropriate in a cold winter.

On the left is the facade of the Post Office. The High Street is noted for its Arcade shopping centre, which dates back to 1901 and includes ornamental stained glass.

The shops between Pottle's and Poole Corner were demolished to make way for the old post office and an ironmonger's.

He sold the shop to the Stowmarket Co-op in 1975 and retained the post office. The Ipswich Co- op built a new store, which masks the right side of the buildings.

The small building behind the finger post was Cooper's butcher's shop (centre left). To the right is the Victorian village hall, now a house.

This post mill was rebuilt in 1788 and 1844, retaining a main beam dated 1644. It was featured in an early film about milling in 1939, And Now They Rest.

The eclectic mix of architectural styles, ranging from the thatched roof of the single-storey old post office and the slab-fronted agricultural dwelling next to it, to the generously featured

The driver of the Triumph Herald 1200 patiently waits, with his window wound down, for his wife to post a letter and buy a newspaper.

The post office is the black and white half-timbered building on the left.

The post office (right) may have been purposely built in the late 19th century; outside is the red letter box and telephone kiosk.

The Great Tower, dating from the 15th century, has seen many different tenants, including, briefly, a post office!

A typical post Second World War shopping centre, with a range of shops designed to meet most of the local needs of those living in these suburbs of Middlesbrough.

These harsh new concrete structures replaced shops on this side of Queen Street - the retention of an old lamp-post (with a new top) does little to compensate.