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This uncompromising modern building opened on 10 October 1952, and was soon filled with the post-war baby boom and the children of Woolston's new housing developments.

The village post office often doubled as a general store, as the window-dressing here shows. The church was built in 1846, and is still a well-used and much-loved building.

At the height of the British Empire, the colleges took in the children of military officers and civil servants posted to far-flung corners of Queen Victoria’s realm.

Forty pairs of horses were maintained at the inn for posting.

Many businesses grew from the tourist trade that came to Wales in the post-war decades.

The Dolphin Hotel is an old coaching and posting house. By 1907 the railways had reduced reliance on coaches, and this one is probably an excursion coach.

The post-war building expansion is well shown in this mid-50s view of Oaks Lane, Willington.

Stone urns were added to the gate posts at a later date.

The village general stores and post office once housed its own manual telephone exchange.

The nearby post office is surely one of the most delightful of such buildings anywhere in England, situated as it is in a genuine Queen Anne building.

Forty pairs of horses were maintained at the inn for posting.

Post-war prosperity and the desire for modernity swept aside many of Rainham's old buildings. By the 1960s the supermarket was king. Families were buying new cars like the Standard in this picture.

A new retail block has been built between the post office and Marks & Spencer, replacing Lesters and the White Swan. Boots has moved from its previous location next to Woolworths.

Looking south-westwards towards the Stonebarrow Hill, the Forge and Blacksmith's Cottage can be seen on the left and a range of old thatched cottages rise from the Old Post Office (centre).

The post office in this pretty black and white cottage opened in 1840, the year the Penny Black stamp first appeared.

Prince Philip was its first Chancellor, and the Duchess of York served for many years after he left the post.

Along here were the post office, the Angel Hotel and St John's Church.

Whitmore Way was the site of Basildon's first proper shopping parade: this included a chemist, a hardware shop, a post office, a Martin's newsagent, a Home & Colonial store, and a much-needed chip-shop

However, the village post office on the opposite side of the roundabout is still there, although instead of Hovis, it now advertises the National Lottery.

The post box and telephone box must have been well used by residents at the camp. The Shoeburyness School of Gunnery was founded in the middle years of the 19th century.

The flint-faced post office is on the right. Note the lone policeman keeping a watchful eye on events in the right foreground.

On the left is the Georgian bow-windowed stores and post office. This has been a grocers' shop for over a hundred years.

The post office sat right in the corner of the crossroads, where a signpost directed motorists to the marshes, Woodchurch or Ashford. Today this village has several new housing developments.

Ludham has an example of the oldest type of hollow-post wind-pump, which is around three hundred years old.