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If, as has been reported, it is not the most beautiful village in Hertfordshire, Westmill is certainly among the most photographed.

The building between the lamp post and the telegraph pole on the left was until recently a builders' hire shop, but is now Unwins off-licence.

The cinema was demolished as part of the post-war redevelopment, and its replacement building eventually became part of Winch & Blatch.

Both horse and cart and motor car are parked outside Wealden Hall House; at the time of the photograph it was trading as the Post Office, and advertising itself as selling 'Drapery, Outfitting, Grocery

A man appears to be painting the posts on which the boy was playing in photograph 64564. He is old enough to have been that boy!

The Robinsons were major employers in the town, owing the success of their business activities to the burgeoning TV rental market of the post-war years.

The man standing on the jetty, in the right-hand middle ground inland of the lamp-post, gesticulates with his left arm as he addresses the small group seated in front of him; they appear

Opposite was the post office, whose thatched roof had to be replaced by corrugated metal like many others along that stretch.

Wales's oldest university is located here; it was established in 1822, and has brought a cosmopolitan complexion to this ancient and most distant of towns.

To the north of the north porch there is a massive, very ancient yew tree, its weary boughs propped on posts. It is thought to be as old as the Norman church itself.

The area on the left burned down in 1883, and the buildings post-date that; they include the former Free Library built in 1895, the building with the tall oriel bay windows.

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

Next door are the twin half-timbered gables in the antique style of the Fairby Stores and Post Office and, beyond, a lofty weatherboarded barn. In 1895 the population was small - only 272.

In the picture the Post Office has signs advertising tobacco and cigarettes fixed to the shop front, with an Esso paraffin sign further along. The large door of the outbuilding has a cat hole.

It is not a busy day in this photograph, and the shop awnings, deep shadows and the light summer dresses all suggest a very hot day in post-war Wales.

To the right at 27 Market Place is the post office. In July 1965 this was transformed into the Westminster Bank, where Mr Gambrill was the manager - he had been with the bank for 31 years.

All the buildings have changed proprietors except the big white building with the three dormer windows, which is still the post office.

This building exhibits all the usual features of a post office, including letter boxes, a clock and an information board giving details about collection times.

This view looks across to the general store and post office; its clock, inscribed 'Weale's Coal Order Office', and Howard Weale's shop sign both survive.

Ropergate also had the County Court Office, right, and nearer town, the old post office.

By 1960, the pedestrian crossing over Westgate had been moved to its present position, in the foreground of this view.

Later photographs from the 1950s show no change to the building apart from the addition of a hanging sign at the front, and the replacement of the gas lamp-post with an electric, concrete one.

The post office is clearly identifiable from the telegraph wires on its roof; it relocated to this site in 1858. In 1950 Mr W J Griffiths was postmaster.

On the right are the Edwardian buildings occupied by Marlow's from 1925 to 1975, Watson's Post Office and the Queens Head.