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This view from the church crossroads looks along Smugglers Lane towards the post office crossroads.

The Post Office and Stores (centre) run by C J Brook closed in 2002. On the left, the rounded brick building is now part of Hollingsworth's butcher's shop.

The large gabled house on the left of the street, with the telephone box outside, is the village shop and post office, both of which have since closed.

The largest observation post in England, it was used by Allied generals who watched the live-firing rehearsals for the D-Day landings, and were joined by King George VI on 18 April 1944.

In this picture the East End Post Office can be seen on the right, the one building in the row not faced with weatherboard.The small store facing the photographer also housed the Coastguard Reporting

The ornate lamp-post and drinking trough have gone, to be replaced by bollards and a zebra crossing.

The fells sheltering this village, most of which lies at the foot of this steep main street, rise to 1,000ft. The rest of the village follows the high road above the River Ribble.

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

This building had Manchester's Telephone Exchange on the top floor - the posts carrying each line can be seen on the roof.

far afield for the older generation, then there were plenty of seats and shelters along the clifftop where one could sit in the sun or the shade, and catch up with the news in the Yorkshire Post

There is little in the picture to indicate that the town was about to enter an era of prosperity as a 'honey pot'. As an example, consider the size of the Post Office on the left of Bedford Street.

The Angel Inn (later the Wheatsheaf) served as the main staging post for travellers.

The thatch of the old post office has given way to slate (left), and the business itself - with its attendant telephone kiosk - has moved just a few doors down.

The post office is in the adjacent building off to the right of the photograph.

Arthur Bunting (left) dealt in woollens and linen; Curl Brothers owned the huge shop on the right of the picture, which was floodlit at night by the eight lamp posts erected on the pavement.

Post-war he was a county councillor and a member of the Board of Finance for the Salisbury diocese.

This post-war photograph shows a very different scene compared to the way it looks today.

Looking down High Street we see, right, North End Cottage, now the post office. On the left is the Old Hall and the Catholic church, Our Lady of Mount Grace.

The other properties towards A R Steward's shop have been at various times a post office, a hardware store, and a chemist's.

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

The battlemented tower of St Bartholomew's (left) just shows above the row of rather good brick and tile cottages, into which the post office has been thrust.

The window that you can see to the left of the lamp-post now has modern stained glass in it, in wonderful reds and oranges, to depict the flames of the bombing; it was designed as a tribute to the Cathedral

All the buildings have changed proprietors except the big white building with the three dormer windows, which is still the post office.

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