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The cottage, built in 1824, served as the local post office; like the rest of the small hamlet, it is part of the Stonyhurst estate.

Eric Parker described this pub as an old posting inn with the remains of what was once a spacious parlour, solid with oak beams big enough for a belfry, warmed by a broad open fireplace

The shop on the right of this photograph is Hermitage Post Office and Stores. Today the speed limit through the village is thirty miles per hour, not forty.

Bendlowes held various official posts under the Tudor monarchs, some of whom had to turn a blind eye to his Catholicism. The Cottage is one of several almshouses he endowed.

Here we see evidence of early tourism in the area with a wonderful display of post-cards in the shop on the right.

Lymm post office, with the public telephone box outside, is on the left; on the right is the site of the present Saddler's Arms on the corner of Legh Street.

The single-storey extension hides the Old Manse, the post office and John Constable's first studio.

To the left is the now closed red brick post office, whose shop front has been replaced by three windows. Ahead is the 17th-century timber-framed White Horse and the Victorian South View Cottage.

Mothers and children make their way to Chilbolton's village store and post office. Power lines are visible in the picture, but electricity came to Chilbolton much later than many other communities.

At the end is Post Office Corner.

The post office was opened in 1963.

It was also the village post office until it closed in the 1980s. Further down Tuck's Lane, on the right, is the Blue Boar public house, selling Morrell's ales.

The small stone bridges still cross the beck in front of the village Post Office in the pretty village of Bishop Monkton, south of Ripon in the valley of the River Nidd.

Loders Post Office, run by J A Wells, can be seen in a view eastwards from the middle of the village. Waynflete and Lothers (left) face No 41 and the Loders Arms (right of centre).

A soldier stands to the right of the gate.The post box and telephone box must have been well used by residents at the camp.The Shoeburyness School of Gunnery was founded in the middle years of the

The new housing developments of both pre- and post-war Britain most often came with a small parade of shops to serve the new residents.

Standing in the shadow of a great chestnut tree, the Royal Anchor Hotel, once a posting and coaching house, dates from the time of Samuel Pepys who found 'good, honest people' here.

The Midland Hotel next door was demolished and replaced with an extension to the town Post Office, which still occupies the same site today. All the buildings on the right of the street have gone.

From the right they were Thomas the ironmongers, built in 1886, the Post Office of 1895 with the Royal Arms on the gable, and Boots' Tudor fantasy of 1910.

The White Hart was once a posting house from which stagecoaches made daily runs to Hull, Doncaster and Sheffield.

In this picture we can see, the local Post Office on the left; it also carried out electrical and radio servicing.

Here we see the post-1953 sea wall, stepped here to allow access to the beach.

Despite its relative isolation from the main mining areas, St Mawes is thought to have been an early tin trading post.

On the right is the Crafthole Methodist Chapel, built in 1867, while the house jutting out into the road on the left is now the shop and Post Office.