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Standing in the shadow of a great chestnut tree, the Royal Anchor Hotel, once a posting and coaching house, dates from the time of Samuel Pepys who found 'good, honest people' here.

The Romer Arms pub is unchanged, but the Daventry Co-op Industrial Society shop (left) has been rebuilt as Newnham Stores and post office.

Just at the rear of this photograph is the end view of the new village shop and post office, the only change to the scene.

Built in 1540, during the post-moot age really, this red brick and half-timbered Moot Hall would have been a hotbed of commercial and legal activities during the town's most prosperous

The wooden stumps (bottom left) are known as strapping posts, and were used to tie up boats.

Just behind the parked car on the left is the carved entrance to the post office, while on the right a Singer's sign advertises the advantages of sewing on an electrically powered machine.

A little further down the hill that we see in No O74048 is the post office; it has now closed, but the same thatched cottages remain.

The flint-faced post office is on the right.

Note the rugby posts, ever a central theme in South Walian life, towards the left of the picture.

The post office, the Green Dragon and, opposite, the New Inn, overlook the cross-roads at the centre of the village.

The building to the right of the Scott K3 telephone kiosk is probably the village post office.

The gateway to the right is part of the 19th-century Market House, which became the post office.

Both Slinfold House (on the left) and Slinfold's stores and post office are clad in an attractive pattern of mathematical tiles, which were very popular in the 18th century.

Marsh's Stores, shown on the right, is currently the village's general store and post office, while a modern building fills the gap to the left of the stores.

The Fearnhead post office on the corner of Fearnhead Lane (right) advertises Sanpic, which 'Destroys Sink Odours'.

The inner relief road carved through here in the late 20th century from left to right, destroying the post office and the surrounding houses.

The village grew thanks to railway workers and commuters, and shops moved onto the ribbon development on the Bristol to Bath road - we can see a post office, an optician's, a chemist's, a Co-op and a petrol

The post office/shop by the Morris is still there, along with the Jubilee Hall, opposite, which was built for meetings.

The Square, the building located at the head of the slipway, was once the village post office and is now part of the Mermaid restaurant.

Here we see one of the town's post-offices.

The post office with shop is the former school house (1858).

Here, the very spacious and pleasantly laid-out corner of just such an estate indicates the post-war planning and housing ideals.

The post office (right) is unchanged, but the telephone box has been replaced.

The Corner Shop and Station Parade Post Office still provides an invaluable service to residents and passers-by, but an extension has been built on to the end wall for Saab who also trade