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The large building in the background is the Post Office, which was open from seven in the morning till ten at night.

North-eastwards from Japonica Cottage, housing the Post Office (left), the photographer centres on the 1839-built Congregational Chapel.

The northern end of the Post Office (just visible down Basket Street in the centre) would now be on Royal Parade outside Dingles.

Like so many villages, however, Ullenhall has lost its shops, post office, school and vicarage.

The post office and stores survives. Nearby is the 17th-century Knatchbull Arms, and just below the Square is a new footbridge and streamside walks to caves.

St Mary's church is best known for its most unusual detached three-storey belfry.

This view shows Lake's Art and Literature Shop on the left and part of the main Post Office on the right.

The post-enclosure brick cottages on the left have now been replaced with modern housing. In the distance is the Manor House, once home of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, the famous landscape gardener.

A sign on the wall of the post office informs customers that a public telephone can be used here.

In the 1880s and 90s post offices often opened longer hours than they do today; from 7.00am to 9.00pm was common.

Notice the very decorative lamp post on the right-hand side of the road in the photograph below.

Picket Post is a tiny hamlet on the high road between Ringwood and the New Forest. It is a convenient place to stop for tea, sit on a bench and watch the world go by.

Like so many villages, however, Ullenhall has lost its shops, post office, school and vicarage.

It is lunch time in the village; the post office is closed, and the lady street vendor is resting on her cart.

In the days when Botley was an important staging post on the coach route, the village boasted as many as fourteen inns.

The post office stores stands on a corner in the centre of the village near the church, and is still trading today.

On the left is the red brick and stone Lloyds Bank building, with its fretted skyline, while to the right is the neo-classical Post Office, built in 1881.

A building has architectural pretensions on the right, in front of which the gas lamp post, with leaning boys, appears to be standing in the gutter and not on the pavement.

The wooden posts on the right are all that remains of the two original piers. The white wooden huts on the left were used by the local air-training

In the early to mid 19th century Mrs Wigley kept a post office in one of these cottages.

Viewed from the direction of Bryn Euryn, the prominence of the Victoria Pier is clear; Colwyn Bay sought to rival nearby Llandudno as the main attraction, as post-war mass tourism brought

The mill was built in 1857 on the site of an earlier post mill. The mill was worked by the Foster family until 1946.

This post mill was moved to here from Aldringham in 1922, and was altered to drive a waterpump to provide water supplies for a holiday village. The house in the clouds conceals a water storage tank.

Also prominent in the picture is the General Post Office, opened in 1818 and scene of the opening of the Easter rising in 1916.