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Mr Burden's shop and Post Office is the centre of village life. Here we see the local bobby returning to his beat—his cycle is parked under the signpost.

The posts have now gone, but there is still a bench; and the copper beech tree, just visible on the left, is now a fine, mature specimen that shades much of the Green.

On Main Street were the blacksmith, the wheelwright, the fishmonger, the butcher and the post office, which was run by Mr R Ireland in his general stores (right).

A closer view of Market Place, minus its Saturday morning stalls and with only the refreshment stand by the lamp- post facing onto the 17th- and 19th-century shops and offices.

The Old Bank building, which stood at the junction of Chertsey Road, High Street and Broadway, failed to survive the post Second World War swathe of redevelopment which saw many of the town's Victorian

On the extreme left is the post office, with The Bricklayer's Arms across the way. Beyond is E M Parton's fish shop, and two doors further on, the Westcott Communal Kitchen.

A small girl prefers her umbrella to the shade under the shop blinds on this warm-looking day in post-war Wales.

The village post office, near the bus (right), remains.

They not only provided the post office, but also newspapers and the posters outside kept the locals abreast of events both national and local; sweets, chocolates, tinned foods, candles and basic

The Post Office and Stores closed in March 2003. The lean-to is all that remains of the carpenter's and undertaker's shops.

Next door was the post office, recently demolished to allow restoration of the garden to a charming Georgian gentleman's house.

Also on Town Streeet was the Salvation Army, tithe cottages for the local clergy, and, grouped around the old Arcade, the post office, bank, bakers, florists and cobblers.

There is the more familiar red telephone box on the traffic island, a modern post box, and Belisha beacons to aid pedestrians wishing to cross the road.

Here were the magnificent municipal buildings, completed in 1888 at a cost of £540,000, including the post office, the Bank of Scotland, the Merchant's House and several hotels.

It was delivered by the afternoon post the same day!

This view, looking west from the green, has lost its two community facilities: The Bell is now a house, while the shop on the right is now a house called The Old Post Office.

Ferring is a residential village near the sea.The Norman church keeps the registers of Kingston, a village long lost due to coastal erosion.

Village life is captured in the streets of the village - the Literary Institute (1877) still stands, now the post office and village hall.

Beyond, the building with the four-shaft 17th-century chimney stack was used as the Post Office until recently and is now a clothing shop.

Also on Town Street was the Salvation Army, tithe cottages for the local clergy, and, grouped around the old Arcade, the post office, bank, bakers, florists and cobblers.

Finally, on the left is the old Post Office.

Severely modern and uncompromising in its architecture, this grammar school symbolised the progressive educational changes of the post-war period.

Severely modern and uncompromising in its architecture, this grammar school symbolised the progressive educational changes of the post-war period.

Our tour of Aylesbury peters out amid the post-war expansion to accommodate London's overspill.