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This interesting picture of the village street and the post office shows the village postman about to mount his bicycle.

The village also had a well-known post-type windmill, which was sited by the main road. The 14th-century Blackboys Inn has been recently restored after fire damage.

In the distance can be seen a small shopping centre with a post office at the point where Spring Lane branches off from Riverside.

We are looking eastwards down Main Street from Chideock House (left) and what is now the Old Post Office (right). It was run by Charles Gibbs and his daughter Hilda.

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

There is no longer a post office next to the ornate and elegant Scala Cinema (second from the right), and the Rhymney General Stores (extreme right) is now a chemist`s.

are Harry Webber, hairdresser, in the former Oakes Bank of 1885, the International Stores (Frederick Riches was manager), who traded here from 1909 to 1976, and Eccleston's, draper and grocers, now the post

At the centre, secreted away within an 18th-century brick skin, is a superb late mediaeval hall house, complete with a fine crown post roof and an original window on the rear elevation.

The journey from the capital to the naval port took eight hours; the six hours to Liphook cost 13s 6d.

The lady on the left is standing outside Budleigh's post office, as we may even today, for it has so far survived on the same site.

The post office on the right was formerly the Agricultural Hall. At the Royal Hotel on the left the author first sampled samphire, a Norfolk delicacy found growing in salt marshes around the coast.

The small, ornate castellated building in the centre of the row of shops used to be Heswall Village Post Office, but that later moved to its present position in the building to its immediate right.

A few miles from the old port of Pwllheli, this small village on the side of the river Erch would seem to offer little to the passer-through; but a few houses, a church and a small shop offering anything

Timothy Whites, the chemist, was a familiar sight in post-war Wales and is a conspicuous business on the Square.

But the cars are getting bigger, and the Vauxhall exudes the post-war General Motors influence - Britain is going to get a lot more American yet!

Behind Ken Pett's green post office van on the left of the picture, you can just see the remains of Norman Burton's shop which burnt down during the early hours of 6 January 1948.

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

Outside the village store and post office a man in overalls unloads bread from his van, and an advertising sign depicts Capstan Cigarettes.

Free from traffic and flanked by the old cottages, this post-war scene evokes an essence of earlier village days.

Next to the post office (right) is the old Methodist church, now replaced by a new building. Near here is a butcher's shop over which early Methodists once met.

In this view from the west, the man in the straw boater looks past the school with its attached hipped-roofed master's house to Lea Hill, now known as Fittleworth Common.

Fleur-de-Lys, the timber-framed building, is one of Hailsham's most interesting and oldest buildings.

The post office (near right) was run by F S Mowlam in the 1950s. Further on we see the gabled end of the White Hart Hotel.

A herd of contented pigs rootle opposite the post office on the green which runs alongside a two-and-a-half mile stretch of the Romans' Stane Street.