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Is the lady making her way to the post office? A local contractor, Fred Dyke, owned steam-driven vehicles; lumps of red-hot ash would fall from the fire basket under the boiler onto the road.

The large village of Heckington has two great buildings, the mill and the church of St Andrew, which is most unusual in that it was totally built in the same architectural style, Decorated, in a very few

Here we see modern post-war housing development in what was known as West Hartlepool until the two Hartlepools merged to form the County Borough of Hartlepool in 1967.

On the right, the half-timbered Post Office and the adjoining small shops sport an impressive number of modern advertising signs.

The Post Office building is solidly built of brick.

At the east end of the nave aisle and on each side of the chancel arch are large brass posts with decorated candle holders, five in all.

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

Opposite them, Briggs Stores is now the post office, and Cash & Co beyond is now a kebab shop.

In the aftermath of the Great War, the post office still bears a recruiting poster. It is interesting to speculate whether the 'Local Views' in the postcard rack are by the Frith company.

In this view the Beehive shop and the dormered cottage beyond survive, but the buildings beyond have been rebuilt for Townsends and the Post Office.

Led by the fiddle-player on the right, and probably lubricated by the pub behind him, Morris dancers perform on the village green in the year that ended post-war rationing.

Not far from the Harris Gallery is the new Head Post Office, shown here in the year that it first opened for business.

Further along the road is the main post office and at the end, distinguished by its clock tower, is the Town Hall, which was built in 1880.

His son Robert and his grandchildren continued at the shop and post office until its closure in September 1975. The wooden buildings were replaced by a house in the 1980s.

The little girl, strapped in for safety and concentrating on hanging on, looks much more Victorian than post-war, and should be in the Lifeboat Day Parade.

The post office sign is visible over the lower window of the building immediately in front of the church.

On the right we can see a finger post pointing to the church.

The Morris 1000 is heading west past the post office towards Tudor House - with its steeply pitched roof of stone tiles, it is one of Mickleton's notable buildings.

There is a poster for cocoa in the window of the Co-op on the left. The Kings Arms signboard in a blanked window (left) proclaims post horses for hire.

Dunmow`s post office has been in the red brick building (centre) since 1939. A barn, used for meetings by local dissenters, once stood on the site.

This post office is at 22 Oakley Lane, and is still trading today. Since the 1960s, Oakley has grown considerably, and its population is now 7,000.

There is a post office and a church here, and the River Anton flows through the valley.

Note the Gilbert Scott-designed telephone box on the right, together with the pillar box and sign to the post office. The pantiled roofs of the cottages are typical of this part of North Yorkshire.

Along with a post office there were a grocery, a butcher's, a cobbler's, a tailor's and a baker's in the village at this time.