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The post office on the left shut in 2004. Parked is a Hillman Imp with L-plates that in 1967 cost £665 at Alec Bennett in Portswood.

Davies's Buildings containing the post office was built in 1892 on the site of the Mackworth Arms (demolished 1890/91).

In our post-industrial age you can now follow the same road out of Risca to the Dan-y-Graig nature reserve, which is situated on land given to the Gwent Wildlife Trust by the Risca

The inn and the post office (and general stores) were at the heart of most villages until very recent times.

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

On Main Street were the blacksmith, the wheelwright, the fishmonger, the butcher and the post office, which was run by Mr R Ireland in his general stores (right).

The posts have now gone, but there is still a bench; and the copper beech tree, just visible on the left, is now a fine, mature specimen that shades much of the Green.

On the left is the post office, run by Fred Maplesden, who was also printer and publisher of the East Grinstead Household Almanack.

On the right is the 1884 post office, with its decorative detailing, recalling the ancient East Anglian tradition of pargetting.

The main Post Office was on Brows Lane. The name Formby is said to derive from Icelandic or Scandinavian, and to mean 'the village of the old wise man'.

In this photograph the High Street has an almost deserted aspect, apart from two stationary carts; the Post Office is on the left and the Swan Hotel further along on the right.

The hexagonal building at the bottom was a provision store plus post office, then a gas company showroom for a short time, and finally Martin's Central Heating, before it was demolished for road widening

Mr Burden's shop and Post Office is the centre of village life. Here we see the local bobby returning to his beat—his cycle is parked under the signpost.

Now the Bee Hive Store and Post Office have been built at the end of the terrace and provide service six and a half days a week.

The Post Office is down the street to the left.

A small boy plays on the posts.

The Old Bank building, which stood at the junction of Chertsey Road, High Street and Broadway, failed to survive the post Second World War swathe of redevelopment which saw many of the town's Victorian

On the extreme left is the post office, with The Bricklayer's Arms across the way. Beyond is E M Parton's fish shop, and two doors further on, the Westcott Communal Kitchen.

A small girl prefers her umbrella to the shade under the shop blinds on this warm-looking day in post-war Wales.

The village post office, near the bus (right), remains.

The Post Office and Stores closed in March 2003. The lean-to is all that remains of the carpenter's and undertaker's shops.

Next door was the post office, recently demolished to allow restoration of the garden to a charming Georgian gentleman's house.

They not only provided the post office, but also newspapers and the posters outside kept the locals abreast of events both national and local; sweets, chocolates, tinned foods, candles and basic

Village life is captured in the streets of the village - the Literary Institute (1877) still stands, now the post office and village hall.