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The jaunty hanging kettle optimistically beckons visitors to a Swiss-style establishment that must belie a Wales only just awakening from its post- war austerity.

From this view of the crossroads, one can see The Redes on the left, and on the right, Japonica Cottage, which housed Netherbury Post Office.

Many of Slough's town centre buildings are relatively new, dating from the post- and pre- war periods.

Doubtless state-of-the-art in 1955, these flat-roofed terraced beach huts typify the immense popularity of the post-War summer seaside holiday and day trips, but have long been demolished.

The Capital and Counties bank (now Lloyd's) and Post Office are in the foreground.

All the buildings shown still exist, though the Post Office Stores is now the Tandoori Cottage Restaurant.

On the right is John William Hodgin's draper's shop, which was earlier the post office and run by A Blackby.

The sign on the lamp post indicates that the Post Office can be found in Quay Street, to where it was moved from the corner of High Street and Dark Street in 1936.

At the other end of the extended village of Gronant, before the area was given over to holiday accommodation and caravans, the post office not only sold stamps but also petrol and paraffin.

Despite post Second World War development, several thatched cottages have survived to the present day.

High Street c1965 Post-war expansion of Cambridge pushed the suburbs into outlying villages.

This view clearly shows the iron benches, railings and posts and the ornate street lamps. The earth road is in marked contrast to today's tarmac surface.

The cars look quaint and characterful, but these days the typical post-war architecture seems tired in style and not a lot more than simply functional.

At the height of the coaching era, Maidenhead was littered with posting inns either side of the High Street. Some of these hotels continued to thrive during the age of the motor car.

From this view of the crossroads, one can see The Redes on the left, and on the right, Japonica Cottage, which housed Netherbury Post Office.

In this picture the new Post Office is still under construction on the right.

In the 1880s and 90s post offices often opened longer hours than they do today; from 7.00am to 9.00pm was common. On Sundays, telegraph offices opened from 8.00am to 10.00am and from 5.00pm to 6.00pm.

Today, the Post Office, the first building on the right, is a bathroom showroom.

Transport for guests is lined up outside the Commercial Hotel, advertised at the time as being 'lighted by electricity; families, tourists and commercial, billiards and posting'.

Sturdy bicycles abound in this post-war view. But now, with increasing recognition that cars and pedestrians do not mix, the road sports a pedestrian crossing.

The old and new come together in this post-First World War photograph, with a steamer in the foreground, and a sailing ship in the distance.

In a small village, the post office and general store was always important. This one states boldly that telegrams could be dispatched. A letterbox is set in the wall.

In the post-war years, many eating places were established to cater for the new influx of affluent tourists.

Horses outside the post office give a rural air to this scene.