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Swanbridge and Sully Island, once the haunt of wreckers and pirates, would play host to an equally enthusiastic yet more peaceful group of invaders each summer!

Behind the post office lamp on the right the tall new Lloyds Bank building has altered the roof line.

The Post Office Stores on the corner closed in 1991. To the centre right is the Guildhall of c1495, with the Arts and Crafts-style Village Hall behind.

A shooting lodge became the Youth Hostel and later housed the post office.

Again we see an empty road, but motor traffic has made an appearance in the form of two parked motor cars, one alongside a striped sign post to Clitheroe.

Further north along the High Street, the photographer looks past the junction with Vicarage Street past a jumble of piecemeal development, mostly late 19th-century small shops.

Indeed, the scene in Church Street captured here has changed remarkably little in the past half century.

The design of the Number 24 Bournemouth bus and the Morris Minor van opposite it take us firmly into the post-war years.

There are 106 angels on the hammers, wall plate and wall posts, all with outstretched wings hovering over the congregation at worship.

On the right, the building on the far side of the post office (built 1903) is the Methodist Wesleyan chapel which was opened on 24 July 1834.

This scene is largely unchanged today, with the lamp-post still pleasingly in the middle of the road, but there are road markings now.

Further along is the Town Hall, which was built in 1854; it also housed the police court and post office.

There is a great increase in street furniture such as lamp posts, flagpoles and traffic islands, whose black and white paintwork is a hangover from wartime blackout conditions.

The Post Office, with its central turret, was built in 1896 by Sir Henry Tanner. It was erected on the site of the old Mixed Cloth Hall, which was opened in 1756.

The Post Office, with its central turret, was built in 1896 by Sir Henry Tanner. It was erected on the site of the old Mixed Cloth Hall, which was opened in 1756.

There is still a stocks and whipping post at Havering-atte-Bower, and there has been since at least the 17th century, when they were destroyed by a mob.

On the left a woman stands in the door of the Post Office, which in 1895 also acted as a money order and telegraph office. Just beyond a carpenter is at work.

He had a flair for advertising and 'Player's Please' signs, such as the one affixed to the Post Office, were eventually to be seen in every village.

The stores and post office, right, were once an essential part of this village.

Despite the fact that post-war rationing was still in force, this market town was thriving. On the left is an optician's, A Bateman's.

Grand Parade (right), housing the post office and Arthur Hopkins' butcher's shop, was newly built at the time this picture was taken.

On the right is the post office, its thatched roof replaced by corrugated iron.

We can see the large boats of the 1930s, the 'Teal' and the 'Swan', each taking the name of one of the Victorian steamers, in this post-World War II scene by Bowness pier.

Stan Leach and his wife kept Corfe Mullen Post Office (top right), which is still going under different ownership.