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Here we see evidence of early tourism in the area with a wonderful display of post-cards in the shop on the right.

The cottage, built in 1824, served as the local post office; like the rest of the small hamlet, it is part of the Stonyhurst estate.

Bendlowes held various official posts under the Tudor monarchs, some of whom had to turn a blind eye to his Catholicism. The Cottage is one of several almshouses he endowed.

The post office sat right in the corner of the crossroads, where a signpost directed motorists to the marshes, Woodchurch or Ashford. Today this village has several new housing developments.

Ludham has an example of the oldest type of hollow-post wind-pump, which is around three hundred years old.

On the left is the Georgian bow-windowed stores and post office. This has been a grocers' shop for over a hundred years.

Lymm post office, with the public telephone box outside, is on the left; on the right is the site of the present Saddler's Arms on the corner of Legh Street.

The single-storey extension hides the Old Manse, the post office and John Constable's first studio.

To the left is the now closed red brick post office, whose shop front has been replaced by three windows. Ahead is the 17th-century timber-framed White Horse and the Victorian South View Cottage.

Eric Parker described this pub as an old posting inn with the remains of what was once a spacious parlour, solid with oak beams big enough for a belfry, warmed by a broad open fireplace

The shop on the right of this photograph is Hermitage Post Office and Stores. Today the speed limit through the village is thirty miles per hour, not forty.

A grey day in post-war Lytham. The photograph gives the impression that the town is waiting for someone or some-thing to lift it from gloom and despondency.

Next to it, and somewhat heavily disguised as the town post office, is a 16th-century timber-framed building.

On the right is the old post office and the agricultural hall.

Viewed from the post office, this memorial to Queen Victoria is known as the Pepperpot because of its shape.

The building on the far right is the post office.

The village sign shown on the right of the photograph depicts a cuckoo, a rebus for Cuckfield, whilst the village stores (left) were a branch of Spar and also housed the local post office

It is not just a place to buy groceries or post a letter, but a place to catch up on all the local gossip - or a place to meet old friends.

The post office is on the left with its sign outside.

In medieval times, guards were posted to keep watch and to guide people from the nearby Forest of Galtres so as to protect them from the packs of wolves that roamed the area.

Standing in the shadow of a great chestnut tree, the Royal Anchor Hotel, once a posting and coaching house, dates from the time of Samuel Pepys who found 'good, honest people' here.

The Romer Arms pub is unchanged, but the Daventry Co-op Industrial Society shop (left) has been rebuilt as Newnham Stores and post office. The tree on the right was replanted in the 1980s.

Just at the rear of this photograph is the end view of the new village shop and post office, the only change to the scene.

Built in 1540, during the post-moot age really, this red brick and half-timbered Moot Hall would have been a hotbed of commercial and legal activities during the town's most prosperous