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The post office sign is visible over the lower window of the building immediately in front of the church.

On the right we can see a finger post pointing to the church.

Both the Post Office, now Swan Cottage and Tudor Cottage date from the 17th century. The larger house with the dramatic jetty (centre) is Highbank, a medieval hall house.

Stevenage was the first of a series of post-Second World War new towns ringing London. Initially, Knebworth had been suggested, but it was felt that railway provision was better at Stevenage.

This post office is at 22 Oakley Lane, and is still trading today. Since the 1960s, Oakley has grown considerably, and its population is now 7,000.

There is a post office and a church here, and the River Anton flows through the valley.

In the centre is Clyde House, once the post office, which along with the village store is now to be found in the converted sandstone barn on the left.

The post box on the right is the same style as is used today.

The Broadway also has a branch of the National Provincial Bank (third from the right) next to the post office, leading on to a greengrocer`s, an optician`s and a ladies` hairdresser amongst others.

On the left a woman stands in the door of the Post Office, which in 1895 also acted as a money order and telegraph office. Just beyond a carpenter is at work.

He had a flair for advertising and 'Player's Please' signs, such as the one affixed to the Post Office, were eventually to be seen in every village.

Further along is the Town Hall, which was built in 1854; it also housed the police court and post office.

There is a great increase in street furniture such as lamp posts, flagpoles and traffic islands, whose black and white paintwork is a hangover from wartime blackout conditions.

The Post Office, with its central turret, was built in 1896 by Sir Henry Tanner. It was erected on the site of the old Mixed Cloth Hall, which was opened in 1756.

The Post Office, with its central turret, was built in 1896 by Sir Henry Tanner. It was erected on the site of the old Mixed Cloth Hall, which was opened in 1756.

The design of the Number 24 Bournemouth bus and the Morris Minor van opposite it take us firmly into the post-war years.

There are 106 angels on the hammers, wall plate and wall posts, all with outstretched wings hovering over the congregation at worship.

There is still a stocks and whipping post at Havering-atte-Bower, and there has been since at least the 17th century, when they were destroyed by a mob.

On the right, the building on the far side of the post office (built 1903) is the Methodist Wesleyan chapel which was opened on 24 July 1834.

This scene is largely unchanged today, with the lamp-post still pleasingly in the middle of the road, but there are road markings now.

Again we see an empty road, but motor traffic has made an appearance in the form of two parked motor cars, one alongside a striped sign post to Clitheroe.

A shooting lodge became the Youth Hostel and later housed the post office.

The Post Office Stores on the corner closed in 1991. To the centre right is the Guildhall of c1495, with the Arts and Crafts-style Village Hall behind.

Further north along the High Street, the photographer looks past the junction with Vicarage Street past a jumble of piecemeal development, mostly late 19th-century small shops.