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The mile post on the former green was set up by the Turnpike Trust in the 18th century for travellers using the new turnpike roads.

The post office stands next to the letter box (left).

On the left is the post office, which closed in the 1980s, and the Chequers Inn. Opposite is Victoria Place, dated 1837, the year Queen Victoria came to the throne.

The steps used to lead into the post office, but it is now a restaurant and Tourist Information Office.

This picture looks westwards down the north side of West Street, with its lollipop limes, from the Post Office to Victoria Grove (right of centre).

included a wheelwright, saddler, blacksmith and farrier, carpenter, carrier, coalman, thatcher, thresher, shepherd, milkman, baker, butcher, general storekeeper and postmaster; in 1990 only the store, post

the mid-1960s the university had embarked on an ambitious expansion programme complemented with an equally impressive building scheme.The university library is considered to be one of the finest post-Second

Good's Stores, bakery, Post Office and café was fire-damaged in the 1970s. The site has now been redeveloped for housing.

Here at number 28 we have Joseph Kennerley's drapery and hosiery shop, which also doubled as the post office.

In this picture, there is a television aerial attached to the chimney, and the sign on the pillar box points the way to the Post Office.

The post office is on the left then Corney Manufacturing Jeweller.

The two concrete Second World War cones (left and right) remain, the one on the left hidden in the shrubbery, the other cut into three pieces forming posts along the front fence.

The two concrete Second World War cones (left and right) remain, the one on the left hidden in the shrubbery, the other cut into three pieces forming posts along the front fence.

The trees, the bench and the post office remain.

Across the bridge is the Post Office and Store, the building with the two gables, while between it and the bridge, just discernible, is a concrete World War II concrete pillbox.

These post- gale craft have small cuddy decks forward. This late 19th-century improvement afforded the fishermen some protection from the weather.

The village store, which is the present Post Office (right) was advertising Venus Soap (enamel sign on fence), Fry's Chocolate and Fry's Pure Cocoa (windows), and Dr Sutherland's report on patent Rua Tea

The post office, that, in about 1910, replaced Mrs Crowley's premises, was in the style of Queen Anne. It is on the right with the modillioned cornice and pediment.

All this is now reduced to the anonymous, all-purpose architecture of the post office and similar expanding contemporary development, particularly on the north side of the village.

Later brick houses also feature, including the Blisworth Post Office and Stores in the middle distance. The corner shop advertising Tizer is now a house.

L T Gamblin's village smithy with the cycles leaning against it has gone the way of most forges and is now a shop, Poppy's Delicatessen, while the post office is now the Beauty Gallery and has lost

On the far left is the Post Office Inn. Horwood's fancy goods shop is on the corner with Bedford Street (right).

We may be glad that the ugly power line post has also gone.

Beyond are the four little cottages now adapted into three shops (one of which, Ada Francis, is advertising her Dining & Tea Rooms), and the post office, which replaced that at Maplesden's