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The Ministry of Works built the post office of Portland Stone in 1927 in a restrained Baroque style.

The Angel Hotel, seen here, is an ancient posting inn, carefully restored a decade before this photograph was taken.

Built in the inter-war years, the post office is typical of many similar government and public administration buildings of the time that can be seen around the country.

The nearby post box stands close to the site of the old town pump.

Taken from the Grand Parade, this view shows well the much-needed 1903 windbreak screen and the higher deck level of the post-1877 rebuilt landward section of the pier, which had been washed

This building contained the village post office and the public house. The unusual name comes from the ship of Captain Philip Broke of Nacton, whose estate extended into Bucklesham.

The inn, dating from the 15th century, was a posting house; the old stables have been converted to garages.

Along here were the post office, the Angel Hotel and St John's Church.

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 19th century.

Whitmore Way was the site of Basildon's first proper shopping parade: this included a chemist, a hardware shop, a post office, a Martin's newsagent, a Home & Colonial store, and a much-needed chip-shop

Prince Philip was its first Chancellor, and the Duchess of York served for many years after he left the post.

However, the village post office on the opposite side of the roundabout is still there, although instead of Hovis, it now advertises the National Lottery.

The post office in this pretty black and white cottage opened in 1840, the year the Penny Black stamp first appeared.

Looking south-westwards towards the Stonebarrow Hill, the Forge and Blacksmith's Cottage can be seen on the left and a range of old thatched cottages rise from the Old Post Office (centre).

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).

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.

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

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

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.

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.

At the end is Post Office Corner.

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.

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.