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On the left, a striped post bearing the red torch of Lancashire County Council denotes a school ahead.

The Hop Pole Hotel on the left in this photograph was a posting house, where horses could be changed and packages left for delivery to other towns.

Crossing the River Clun in the valley is the most delightful medieval bridge, which we can see here just beyond the white van.

The front of Cleveley Lodge was also extended at the time to accommodate the post office and a chemist's shop.

We may be glad that the ugly power line post has also gone.

The general stores next door is now the Willow Guest House, whilst the dwelling next door again has been renamed The Old Post Office.

Cissbury Ring is an Iron Age fort, with flint mines, 602 feet up on the Downs to the east.The Post Office has a pillar-box with a sign on top with an arrow pointing to the entrance a few feet away.

The timber work and carving is of outstanding quality; there is a carved porch, a bressummer beam, corner posts, original windows and an oriel window towards Lady Street.

This now lost view looks from Market Street towards Silver Street: the timber-framed building on the left has been replaced by a 1970s building.

The carrier's wagon outside the post office gives an old-fashioned view to this 1950s view - but milk floats and rag and bone carts were also still horse-drawn well into the late 1950s.

The south porch is timber, and in the north aisle there are two wooden posts. The stained glass windows were designed by Gibbs.

There is a poster for cocoa in the window of the Co-op shop on the left. A boy is sitting between the shafts of a handcart in the middle of the road.

This busy junction, uniting five roads, including Northampton Road and Sheep Street, was lit by a single, central lamp post.

The railings have long gone, but two of the ornate cast- iron lamp-posts survive in what is now a pedestrianised street.

Twenty-five miles from London, the village was an important staging post in the great days of horse-drawn coach traffic, and both Queen Elizabeth I and Lord Nelson passed through here.

The post office and library is now a shop, the Iron Bed Company, and the telephone kiosk has gone.

He was a close and trusted friend of Edward I, and was also appointed constable of Caernarvon, a post he held for about four years.

The last of the five hitching posts stills stands outside the Rose & Crown, a popular stopping place for cyclists and motorists.

It is a post-type windmill where the body is turned to the wind by means of a long tailpole. The front and sides of the mill body and the roundhouse roof are clad in sheet iron.

The Tiger public house was once Church House - behind the brick façade it has a king post roof and a 15th-century hall.

The Post Office building dates from the 16th century.

A straight and wide road leading to the quay creates an impression of past importance.The Romans, the Saxons and the Vikings used the area for invasion.

With the forge next door (left), it was an important staging post for coaches travelling from London to East Anglia or the North. Many coach routes started and finished here.

This is an East Anglian-style post mill with a white-painted weatherboarded body, four spring patent shuttered sails and winded manually by a tailpole.