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D & E Flack's (left) was a general store and post office serving the area north of the Southend road. By the end of the 1950s, outlying shops were competing with the new Town Centre development.

Mr P T Andrews, grocer and provision merchant, ran the Post Office Stores and made deliveries throughout the district.

Further along Park Street we find Lower Gordon Road; the Post Office, run by a Mr H L Love, is on the corner. The premises have since been converted into a private house.

The Sanctuary is now well surfaced to accomodate motor traffic, and a 'Keep Left' notice has been fixed to the lamp-post at the end of Queen Victoria Street.

A London Transport RTL-class bus on the 87 approaches the Clock Tower from White Post Corner.

Ingatestone's livelihood came from its position on the London-Chelmsford road. Even the 'stone' in its name may refer to a milestone.

On the corner by the wall is a Midland bus timetable; across the road is Blisworth Post Office, with its huge advert for Players Navy Mixture.

The post office next door is now clad in painted roughcast and the buildings beyond that have been demolished.

The Square, the building located at the head of the slipway, was once the village post office and is now part of the Mermaid restaurant.

The flint Post Office Stores and cottages have changed very little; the brickwork is still partly painted. To the left is an entrance to Montana, a Roman Catholic residential home.

Both now privately owned houses, the building on the right was the village shop and post office, whilst the black and white building was once a pub, the Eagle and Child, more popularly

Ongar was an important staging-post for carriers, passenger-coaches and wagons. In 1717, the town's first postmaster was earning a yearly salary of £25.

Gweek was at one time a port of some significance at the head of the tidal Helford River, which lies between the buildings and the wooded hillside.

The growth is self-evident here, with Brooke House's massive V-shaped struts in the background (left) and the post office under construction.

Post-war reconstruction and redevelopment of the Moor was just one of many schemes to rebuild the city. As well as on commercial and retail developments, a major effort was made on housing.

An early 20th-century view of that bastion of English life, the Post Office. Here is a lovely half- timbered building in this picturesque little village on the Canterbury road.

These children are part of the post-war baby boom. Although on a busy road junction in central London, the wards had rural views thanks to the extensive Brompton Cemetery at the back.

Stanhill Post Office was the home of James Hargreaves, the inventor in 1764 of the Spinning Jenny. His invention made an enormous contribution to the textile industry.

According to a directory of 1899, it then consisted of a post office, a blacksmith, a grocery shop, a bakery-cum-beer shop, and a few farms.

At the height of the British Empire, the colleges took in the children of military officers and civil servants posted to far-flung corners of Queen Victoria's realm.

The post office stands on the right, with a stamp machine on the wall outside. The massive keep of the castle that gives the village its name attracts many visitors.

Local news, however, is provided by the 'Nottingham Post'.

On the opposite side of the road are the chemist's Hinton Lake and the post office.

Now, an architecturally unsympathetic post office occupies the corner of Queen Street/Boutport Street, Clarkes printing works has become Clarkes Hotel and Symons has lost its glorious canopy.