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First local schools have closed, and then shops, post offices and pubs have followed suit. Sometimes the only way to retain these facilities has been to combine them under one roof.

On the right is G W Roy's fancy repository and the post office, and just beyond that is the Black Horse pub.

This little store and village post office is well remembered for being run for many years by the Moody family. Although the shop area is a little smaller, it is still going today.

On the left of the High Street are the premises of Henfield Post Office and the National Provincial Bank, now defunct.

In the centre of the photograph behind the advertising hoarding is the post office, which later became a wine bar.

The Old Lion and Lamb was formerly a coaching inn, one of the oldest posting houses on the Great North Road, and associated with the Bishops of Lincoln's palace at Buckden Towers.

The Post Office Stores provided provisions, small household goods and postal services for the villagers.

The quaint old building to the right of centre still serves as the village post office and shop today. It is quite small, but it is elaborately decorated on its front outer wall.

The post office has gone, to be replaced by Dust & Co, who sold soft furnishings and linen at this shop. The chemist has also gone. Note the pram parked by the spring.

This is a post mill, like the one at Saxstead; it dates from 1803, and it was moved here from nearby Aldringham in 1923.

The wooden stumps (bottom left) are known as strapping posts, and were used to tie up boats. Their state in this view appears to be somewhat poor.

Judging by the slogan on the rectory wall, not everyone was happy with the post-war Conservative government.

Here in Fore Street the shops include the post office and a hairdresser. A parked motor bike and sidecar is the only traffic.

Taken from the edge of Parsonage Woods to the north of the town, this view, almost unchanged today, looks past the cornfield towards the historic market town nestling in its Chiltern valley.

The two girls are wearing knitted hats, an essential part of post-war dress.

In the days when Botley was an important staging post on the coach route, the village boasted as many as fourteen inns. William Cobbett described Botley as 'the most delightful village in the world.'

The Cornish Arms on the left has got a new sign on a post by the roadside, the monkey puzzle has been felled, and there is now a tangle of overhead electric wires spreading out from their poles.

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

Here we see the village post office and shop, which sells toys and gifts. A well-maintained semi-circular bed of roses has been planted on the forecourt - oh for a dash of colour!

Just past the Village Green, the Boot (left), one of the oldest pubs in the village, and the Barley Mow beyond, are both still trading, although the General Stores between them has been demolished to make

Its quaint and gracious market-place hosts some Royal Mail and GPO vans, plus a selection of post-war cars.

In the 18th century, the almost picturesque group of church and school was completed by the addition of the town stocks and whipping post.

London Bridge's lamp-posts were cast from the metal of French cannons captured in the Peninsula War.

Seen here are the Star, run by Rupert Darby in 1931, and beyond it the Mid Hants Supply Stores Ltd, grocer's and post office; across the road is Bentley Garage.