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He was advised by Florence Nightingale herself, and it was the first post- Crimean War hospital to put into practice the Lady with the Lamp's precepts.

The Post Office has a pillar-box with a sign on top with an arrow pointing to the entrance a few feet away.

A fine example of a West Sussex County Council signpost with cast iron post and circular ornamentation on the top stands on the pavement.

This is a fine old Sussex downland post mill with a domesticated structure enclosing the trestle.

The post office has moved, and is no longer in the far distance on the right of the road.

To the north is a pretty pond, and to the south of the main road is the excellent dark brown greensand sandstone parish church, rebuilt apart from the belfry timber posts in 1860.

The third building belongs to Mr Newman, the newsagent who also ran the post office. Next door is Siddalls, a family firm who have been selling shoes and handbags since 1936.

Ancillary businesses included a newsagent, a butcher, a baker and the post office (where the white van is parked), as well as the builder R O Ayres, who proudly advertises his telephone number on his

It was the most well-known non-monastic inn in Walsingham. Its construction is interesting, particularly the roof, which has a double queen-post structure.

The massed ranks of the staff pose outside the post office, which opened in West Street after occupying several addresses in the High Street and Petworth Road.

The charm of post-war rural Britain is captured perfectly here.

In this picture, the men on parade wear the uniform of the period, complete with spiked helmet, and the horse-drawn vehicle standing beside the post box, outside the pillared portico, may await an

This busy junction, uniting five roads, including Northampton Road and Sheep Street, was lit by a single, central lamp post.

It is a post-type windmill where the body is turned to the wind by means of a long tailpole. The front and sides of the mill body and the roundhouse roof are clad in sheet iron.

The railings have long gone, but two of the ornate cast- iron lamp-posts survive in what is now a pedestrianised street.

He was a close and trusted friend of Edward I, and was also appointed constable of Caernarvon, a post he held for about four years.

The last of the five hitching posts stills stands outside the Rose & Crown, a popular stopping place for cyclists and motorists.

Twenty-five miles from London, the village was an important staging post in the great days of horse-drawn coach traffic, and both Queen Elizabeth I and Lord Nelson passed through here.

The post office and library is now a shop, the Iron Bed Company, and the telephone kiosk has gone.

This is a fine old Sussex downland post mill with a domesticated structure enclosing the trestle.

The tomb in the foreground is that of King John (1167-1216), the first post-Conquest monarch to be buried in England; he lies at Worcester at his own request.

The modern intrusions, such as Kinsell's electrical shop and the adjacent post office (left), do little to enhance the group.

The Post Office is still there in this photograph, and so is the District Bank next door - two disappearing amenities that we once, more or less, took for granted.

The modern intrusions, such as Kinsell's electrical shop and the adjacent post office (left), do little to enhance the group.