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The post office is on the left with its sign outside.

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). The village school was on the right through the little gate.

Here, the very spacious and pleasantly laid-out corner of just such an estate indicates the post-war planning and housing ideals. Note the bubble car for inner-city shopping.

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

Most rationing had ended by now, but you still needed sweet coupons to spend your sixpence or shilling pocket money at this thatched Post Office and general stores.

The black-painted post mill with four patent sails is turned to the wind manually by a tailpole. Located near to a golf course, it was built in about 1765 and ceased work in about 1870.

The parade of shops still exists and the corner shop is still open, but the Post Office sign has disappeared.

The Red Lion Hotel beyond it has gone, now replaced by Red Lion Court, and Mrs Odell now runs the new post office (to the left of the chapel) - the old one closed in 2000.

This attractive thatched building still houses the village post office, except that it has moved to the right, where we can see a pram and a dog.

The 'Family Shop' - the post office and stores on the left - is now a watch repairer's. The baker's next door still has its Hovis sign, but it is a computer business now.

The event is further commemorated in Broadgate by a puppet clock which dates from Coventry's post-war reconstruction.

This is the old Eastleigh Road, and we can see the post office and the telephone kiosk on the left. We are looking towards the old oak tree, which is just out of sight at the end of the road.

Shatz & Sons (fourth from the right) was a furnishing business established in 1891, with a wholesale warehouse in the High Street and a showroom in Post Office Lane.

The post office is also a 'Savings Bank' and 'Money Order Office'. Bus timetables announce United Counties services.

In the post-war period the provision of Local Authority housing increased to meet the demands of a rising population.

The lamp post still stands, but without its light, and beside it Ulverston's war memorial has been erected.

Traditionally, retail outlets built on the approaches to railway stations serving local lines have proved to be most profitable.

Opposite - a sign of the post-Great War years: a Ministry of Labour Employment Exchange.