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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.

Here we see Terling Stores and Post Office. This has always been a meeting place for local shoppers - here a mother shows off her young child.

The White Bull pub (right) is still in existence, but many of the other buildings have gone, and so have the telegraph posts and school sign (left).

The tall building to the left is the post office. Originally a warehouse built after a fire in 1915, it is made of locally produced blocks of crushed Ham Stone concrete.

Along here were the Shire Hall, the Victoria Institute, the Hop Market, St Nicholas Church, Foregate Station, hotels, shops, and the main post office.

A milkman pushes his cart at some speed past the post office on the corner. The pub on the opposite corner survives today as the Duke of Wellington.

Only the post office is still here, and it too is under threat of closure.

In recent centuries, Honiton was a staging post on the coaching route between London and Exeter, and some of its inns catered for the stagecoaches and their passengers.

Basically a grocery shop and off-licence, it also accommodated Wickford's post office around the time of our picture. The in-store café can be seen to the extreme left.

Four heavy stone posts standing on a tall base decorated with quatrefoils carry timber beams and support the roof of the Market Cross.

The houses on the left are typical of the Wealden style, and H Kemp's Stores and Post Office still exist.

Military Road is interesting for two reasons: the construction of the new road brought a number of maritime business premises to Military Road, which has been widened considerably; and this post-war

The post office at the entrance to the Shambles (centre) was built in 1901. It is a fine example of early 20th-century architecture, with echoes of the past in the corner oriel window.

Next to it - immediately behind one of the white posts - are the village stocks.

Village Street leads away downhill to the old post office.

On the right, outside the post office selling Park Drive cigarettes, there is an old-style red telephone box, and beyond it two village shops.

The post office next door has closed.

A Victorian post box sits in the wall on the right, out of view. The cottages, little changed, carry the names of former occupants: Crockford, Chidgey, Pope, Syms and Miss Bryant.