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Post offices had long opening hours. Delivery boys gather outside the main doors, carrying parcels to and from the city's shops and businesses.

The advent of parcel post in 1883, and the right of delivery to every household introduced in 1897, would have increased both the weight of the postmans sack and the length of his round.

One of Chilworth's buildings, originally designed to house the squire's hounds, became the village post office six years before this photograph was taken.

On the extreme left is Botley Post Office, and next to it is a chemists; the former is now a dress shop, and the latter remains a pharmacy.

Olton Boulevard East is a long, wide road of mostly municipal housing, linking Warwick Road with Shaftmoor Lane.

A teashop and a cinema are on the right, opposite the Post Office and Methodist church.

Here we see new building in post-war Wales - new shops, a supermarket and offices in the form of a modern precinct.

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.

The post office (second right) is well patronised.

Opposite, E Wynne`s shop has now lost its black and white appearance with rendering and is currently Mystique Hair Design.

In 1878 the Victorian clock was regulated by Greenwich time so as to agree with the clock at the Post Office. On the left is William Robert Simkin's shop.

Woodstock's post office is on the left next to the building with the railed frontage.

Converted from a Georgian private house, the Village Stores and Post Office is the communal centre of the South Yorkshire village of Wortley.

The taller building standing out from the building line is the former Westminster Bank, and the smaller building is still the Chandler's Ford Post Office.

The post office and adjoining house remain, but there have been many changes since 1960. The next building has been demolished, and so has the whole of the right side of the street.

The Square remains unchanged but for the removal of the lamp-post and the bus shelter. Behind The Old Tea House (centre right), which is still trading, is a hardware shop.

The warehouse-like double-gabled building (centre) is the former Post Office, which closed in 2000.

It has also served as a post office.

Now the pace of change has accelerated: the shopfronts in Station Parade have been renewed, and Southgate's is now Parade Stores and Post Office.

There were also two butchers, four grocers, a hardware store, a post office, a newsagent, a saddler, a laddermaker, shoe menders, a plumber, a builder/decorator, a forge, a blacksmith, malthouses, hop

Brean's Post Office and Stores is still here, although it is now a Spar shop, and the 1920s Methodist Church beyond is still busy on a Sunday.

The village was an important staging post in the heyday of horse- drawn coaches, and it is not surprising that the road across the wild heath was once the haunt of highwaymen.

The post office, on the left here, is now a private house. The billboards outside advertise magazines such as 'Tit Bits' and 'Men Only'.

The buildings were all good quality brick with stone cappings and gate posts.