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A car speeds past - the event was recorded on slow film, so the image is blurred.

Attractive lamp posts line the pavement. In the right hand corner the fencing around the War Memorial can be seen. Southend The War Memorial

South-east of Crewkerne, past its factories and over the railway, is the village of Misterton, which lies along the A356 Dorchester road.

None exist today, although the post for this ferry, seen in the foreground, does still survive.

South Holmwood's fire station was once just to the left of this picture, and the post office (extreme left), doubled up as Crofts', bakers and confectioners.

Westminster House (left) is the only post war addition on view. Power cables for trolley buses and gaps in the pedestrian island evoke this era of road transport.

The weather-boarded property, left, was a post office, with G H Moorhouse the chemist and a trader, A J Gray, nearby.

Opposite is the post office, with a pillar box outside.

The estate agent's office (right) was subsequently a bank branch and is now a florist's shop, while the post office, outside which stand three self-conscious young girls, has been transformed into a private

The large house on the left is Brewery House, and behind the post box is Brewery Barn with Brewery Cottages close by.

In the foreground are a row of workmen's cottages built in about 1910, and on the right is the post office, which now houses the island's museum.

This is at the end of the village street, cut off by the bypass which nearly runs between the two 'goal posts' (left) - this idyllic view cannot be seen today.

The Post Office (left) also advertises Bronte books and postcards, while the Bronte Guest House is visible behind the antiques shop (right centre).

The narrow High Street, with its branch of the National Provincial Bank (later to become the National Westminster Bank) on the right, and the local Post Office, shoe-shop, and newsagents on the left, was

Close to the junction of Nine Mile Ride, New Wokingham Road and Honey Hill, we can see Chappell's Store, clearly the local retailer for Salmon's Teas but also providing the facility of a Post

The plate by the window to the left of the door (now a window) shows that this was also the telegraph office and money order office, and also the Post Office Savings Bank.

This is an excellent study of an Edwardian post office, with the postman on his cart, the telegraph boys at the door, and the postcards on display.

The girl (centre) stands outside the post office stores, which is still a lifeline in the village.

By 1930 a War Memorial has appeared, while the cottage beyond, Old Tythe, then the post office, is now no longer a shop.

To the left is Ketnor, Luccombe Post Office, a late 17th-century house with a good external stack. Ketnor is the name of former owners of the shop, and the name board survives today.

The fact that it once doubled up as the local post office is also unusual. Beautifully restored, it is now a restaurant.

Only a modern lamp-post detracts from the rural tranquility of Rectory Lane on its way to the old village.

Traffic restrictions and the roundabout by the Whyteleafe Tavern are still many years away, but the post office remains at 217 Godstone Road on the right.

A new estate of housing also now replaces the post office and shop on the left so that this view is very much altered.