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about the 'fine lady upon a white horse' who rode her 'Cock horse to Banbury Cross' (possibly Celia Fiennes); or about the infamous Dick Turpin, who apparently visited just about every staging post

The 1898 view shows the earlier type of blinds used by the shops to protect their goods: the awning is supported on wooden posts driven into the road surface.

The Petty Sessions were held here until 1882, and over the years the premises were also a posting house, a railway booking office and an Excise and Inland Revenue office.

Behind the bank was the Post Office (1907-1988) and the magnificent Empire Theatre (3rd July 1909 to 24th April 1955) whose closure, caused by TV and cinema, was so sudden that the stars booked for the

In 1878 Alexander Graham Bell revisited his native land to demonstrate the telephone to the British Association meeting hosted by Lord Kelvin.

Below and to the right of St Mary's Church we can see the gable end of the Old Post Office.

The letter box beneath the lamp post has gone. The sign on the far right of the picture directs visitors to Wells Museum on the left.

The post-war, post-colonial world saw Britain's dominance further reduced.

The second was William Hesketh, later Viscount Leverhulme, who came here from Bolton in 1887 and set up his soap factory at Port Sunlight.

Neither of those ran ferries to the port. The largest category of tenants was those dealing with the ramifications of the clothing trade.

Whitmore Way was the site of Basildon's first proper shopping parade: this included a post office, a Martin's newsagent and a much-needed chip shop.

He moved into the building on St Neots Market Square that had once been the post office in April 1914 and subsequently into the High Street, where the present shop is still run by members of the

Portsmouth acquired city status in 1926 and its prestige was enhanced even further (Sarah Quail) A view of early 20th-century housing and post-Second World War housing development on the mainland

Perhaps the date was regarded as a mere figure on the calendar, although the local Staffordshire Newsletter and Stafford Post each brought out special editions, and there was correspondence debating

Dunchurch itself became an important staging post on the London to Holyhead and Oxford to Leicester roads.

For the most part the going was fairly easy, but there was a midway point where the road had to traverse the Can and the Chelmer. One was wide, the other boggy.

The Sheet tollhouse became the village's post office before its demolition in the 1930s, but in 2005 its hemispherical two-part door can still be seen in good condition, not a mile away from

It has been used as the city's first post office, till increasing literacy demanded bigger premises.

A central post office had been built in High Street in 1882-85, but in 1907 it was replaced by the present building in Wide Bargate which was soon extended to include the sorting office and the

The post-war environment meant that many clubs and societies flourished; the Haywards Heath Round Table was just one example. In 1956 they resuscitated the Dolphin Fair.

A similar trend is reflected in the pictures of villages, taken because there were once village shops and post offices which were points of sale.

New Brighton is situated on the extreme tip of the Wirral Peninsula, and is separated from the busy city and port of Liverpool by the River Mersey.

Here, in the middle of all the people, animals and carts, stood the Market Cross - an open-sided structure consisting of a roof supported on wooden posts.

had terraces of dwelling houses on all four sides, but they were demolished from 1869 onwards and their place taken by the great public buildings occupied by the Bank of Scotland, the General Post