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This view looks east towards the High Street, past the Post Office on the right.

On the right are Barclay's Bank, Merchant's, haberdashers, the post office, Bell, the Co-op (with dome), and Poole's, furnishers.

The post-war years saw the spread of high-street chains, and Chesterfield was no exception. In this picture we can see local branches of Timsons, Alexander, Burtons, and Boots.

The War Memorial and White Swan Inn c1965 In the 1850s the locals' thirst could be quenched in the township's six inns and taverns; the Blue Posts, the Coach and Horses, the Green Dragon, the

Here on the left is the old post office before it moved to the Green. The library beside it has now expanded to fill the whole building.

This post office and hardware shop is near to the church of St Andrew, the church hall that was previously the village school, and the Castle of Comfort pub.

There were also two butchers, four grocers, a hardware store, a post office, a newsagent, a saddler, a laddermaker, shoe menders, a plumber, a builder/decorator, a forge, a blacksmith, malthouses, hop

The post office, on the left here, is now a private house. The billboards outside advertise magazines such as 'Tit Bits' and 'Men Only'.

The warehouse-like double-gabled building (centre) is the former Post Office, which closed in 2000.

The post office and adjoining house remain, but there have been many changes since 1960. The next building has been demolished, and so has the whole of the right side of the street.

It has also served as a post office.

Now the pace of change has accelerated: the shopfronts in Station Parade have been renewed, and Southgate's is now Parade Stores and Post Office.

The Square remains unchanged but for the removal of the lamp-post and the bus shelter. Behind The Old Tea House (centre right), which is still trading, is a hardware shop.

Brean's Post Office and Stores is still here, although it is now a Spar shop, and the 1920s Methodist Church beyond is still busy on a Sunday.

The village was an important staging post in the heyday of horse- drawn coaches, and it is not surprising that the road across the wild heath was once the haunt of highwaymen.

The buildings were all good quality brick with stone cappings and gate posts.

At the pier entrance, near the bandstand and car park, there was a first aid post (right) on the edge of the remaining sand dunes.

The village shop and post office in the distance beyond the children still functions, but the shop-like Gilling Club (to the left of the woman in the middle of the road) has become a house

At the end of the parade of shops on the right is the post office, and in the distance Broxmore, housing the doctor's surgery, stood on the site of the present Oakdene Parade.

The first shop on the left is the post office – it has now moved. Next door is the Bakers Arms pub; in 1961 it was taken over by Mr and Mrs Calder-Smith.

The former post office, called Hunter's, is to its right. The former Congregational manse is to the left, then the chapel, which closed in 1980.

The post mill, which stood to the north of the cottage, was built in 1829 and demolished in 1912. Mill Cottage and the converted barn called Granary House are all that remain of the mill complex.

St Edward's was completed in 1940, although the redbrick geometrical design looks post-war.

The elegant lamp posts were a relatively new addition to this picturesque commercial setting, and although the rails carrying the tramcars are evident, it is clear that pedal-power and horse-drawn