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The mile-post on the hill still tells of 70 miles to Dublin, but those are Irish miles.

On the left of 33602, the lumpy roofs of the 14th-century Old Post Office plunge and pitch, the stout chimneys poking at the sky.

This shows the view looking along Reading Road, past the current Post Office and the Shell petrol pump, to the junction with Friday Street and into Duke Street as it heads towards the Market Place.

Philpot's General Stores was also used as a slaughterhouse until the early 1950s, when it became the post office.

The post office (left) is now a Celtic gift shop. The walls have gone, and cobbles found in the rear garden have been laid at the front.

At the far end is Abbeygate Street, with the three-storey Barclays Bank of 1881, which incorporated the Post and Sorting Office until 1895, the Midland Bank of 1914, and Whipps the fishmonger.

The Metropole Hotel, beloved as a modern day conferencing venue and purveyor of Victoriana, looks a little sleepy in this post-war photograph.

The earlier town hall was burned down during the post-First World War disturbances in July 1919.

The plans were part of a post-war improvement scheme which originated in a town plan produced by Mattocks and Allen, two town planners with visionary ideas.

Cosby presents a most unusual configuration for a Leicestershire village, which with care and attention over the years could have been described as picturesque.

The few cars and heavy queues for buses seen here tell their own story about city transport and life in post-war Wales.

On 30 October 1940 German bombs fell on the village post office and cottages.

There is a new lamp post and a bench in front of the conduit, and the carriage of the Russian cannon can just be glimpsed behind. As a market town, Wells would be expected to have a market cross.

Bennison's Store (right) closed in 1958, and has been a post office and general store ever since.

This position was later used in the Napoleonic wars and finally in the 2nd World War as an anti-aircraft gunnery post. Now Fort Paull, restored in 2000, is an absorbing war museum.

Next along there was the sorting house of the Post Office, built in 1956 on the site of the old Barnardo's, and after that came the offices of the newly nationalised utilities.

This is the T-junction at the centre of Hurst Green, seen here in the gentle post-war years. This stretch of road has a history all of its own.

The gas lamp denotes the post office at number 16 Westgate, and next to it at number 14 we find Mr Franks, a baker's and confectioner's and dining rooms.

The post (centre left) marks the site of a set of iron gates which prevented vehicles from entering the yard during church services.

Until the 1850s, the Navy offered little in the way of pre-sea training to recruits; they were simply posted to a ship, where they learned their craft from experienced hands.

The post office, run by the King family from 1871 to 1987, has again recently been put up for sale.

On the skyline is the newly-opened (1909) Post Office.

On the left stands the Bell Hotel, established, according to the wording over the door, in 1515; it was the departure point for the tri-weekly London coach from Swindon, and the post office in the

Most of the islanders at that time were extremely poor, and like the inhabitants of other coastal areas saw smuggling as a way of augmenting their poverty-stricken existence.