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Post-war he was a county councillor and a member of the Board of Finance for the Salisbury diocese.

There is little in the picture to indicate that the town was about to enter an era of prosperity as a 'honey pot'. As an example, consider the size of the Post Office on the left of Bedford Street.

Arthur Bunting (left) dealt in woollens and linen; Curl Brothers owned the huge shop on the right of the picture, which was floodlit at night by the eight lamp posts erected on the pavement.

This post-war photograph shows a very different scene compared to the way it looks today.

Looking down High Street we see, right, North End Cottage, now the post office. On the left is the Old Hall and the Catholic church, Our Lady of Mount Grace.

The thatch of the old post office has given way to slate (left), and the business itself - with its attendant telephone kiosk - has moved just a few doors down.

The Angel Inn (later the Wheatsheaf) served as the main staging post for travellers.

This building had Manchester's Telephone Exchange on the top floor - the posts carrying each line can be seen on the roof.

far afield for the older generation, then there were plenty of seats and shelters along the clifftop where one could sit in the sun or the shade, and catch up with the news in the Yorkshire Post

The post office is in the adjacent building off to the right of the photograph.

The Post Office has a pillar-box with a sign on top with an arrow pointing to the entrance a few feet away.

A fine example of a West Sussex County Council signpost with cast iron post and circular ornamentation on the top stands on the pavement.

He was advised by Florence Nightingale herself, and it was the first post- Crimean War hospital to put into practice the Lady with the Lamp's precepts.

It was the most well-known non-monastic inn in Walsingham. Its construction is interesting, particularly the roof, which has a double queen-post structure.

The massed ranks of the staff pose outside the post office, which opened in West Street after occupying several addresses in the High Street and Petworth Road.

The charm of post-war rural Britain is captured perfectly here.

To the north is a pretty pond, and to the south of the main road is the excellent dark brown greensand sandstone parish church, rebuilt apart from the belfry timber posts in 1860.

Ancillary businesses included a newsagent, a butcher, a baker and the post office (where the white van is parked), as well as the builder R O Ayres, who proudly advertises his telephone number on his

The third building belongs to Mr Newman, the newsagent who also ran the post office. Next door is Siddalls, a family firm who have been selling shoes and handbags since 1936.

In this picture, the men on parade wear the uniform of the period, complete with spiked helmet, and the horse-drawn vehicle standing beside the post box, outside the pillared portico, may await an

The post office has moved, and is no longer in the far distance on the right of the road.

This is a fine old Sussex downland post mill with a domesticated structure enclosing the trestle.

Further down is the Post Office, erected in 1889.

This is a fine old Sussex downland post mill with a domesticated structure enclosing the trestle.