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It is difficult not to greet the intrusive 'modern' post office to the right of the photograph with a certain sadness.

Ripple is only a hamlet, but in the 1950s it still warranted its own Post Office. As we can see, cigarettes, ice creams and cakes were sold as well.

Look closely at this photograph, and you can spot the Post Office on the extreme left with the premises of a blind and mattress maker just beyond it.

The small post office occupies a late 19th-century cottage. Next door is a small thatched cottage similar to a number of others in the village.

Forty years ago the post office served as a motor garage, complete with petrol pumps.

The Infantryman memorial is still central to this view of the Anchor Inn and Bailey's the butcher's; note the little child passing the unmarked post office.

The late 18th-century post office on the left, with the Victorian Falcon Hotel straight ahead, contribute to a charming square; here, then as now, personal service and choice were important.

On the left, the lumpy roofs of the 14th-century Old Post Office plunge and pitch, the stout chimneys poking at the sky.

The shop names visible on the right, moving right to left are Charles Saies, draper; Herbert, ironmonger; Picture Post; the County Stores and Oliver's.

On the far side is the modern brick branch of the Midland Bank, while on the immediate right are the Post Office, chemists and opticians.

The post box is a unique Victorian model dated 1856. The stocks are thought to have come from Clewer in the late 1920s. The figures on the wall are no longer there.

Note the charming Kate Greenaway-type silhouette sign above the village Post Office on the left, which uses the locally-preferred spelling of the village name - 'Youlgrave'.

Street furniture is changing with the introduction of the ugly concrete street lamp post outside the timber- framed building that was Beach's bookshop.There is a striking coat of arms high up

Fred Atter's grocery shop and café and the old post office went to make way for the footings of the A1 flyover, which now dominates this scene.

On the extreme left of the photograph is the village post office, selling minerals and sweets for the tourists - so does the corner shop in the distance on the right.

Next door was the telephone exchange, and the post office was on the corner.

Both the post office, run by H J Harding when the photograph was taken, and the 16th-century Eagle public house, are still open for business.

The buildings on the left have now all gone, along with the enamelled sign for 'Spillers Shapes for all dogs', but the post office is still there, now with a new telephone box.

This shot includes Overy's hairdresser's, the post office, Charlton's newsagent's, and (on the extreme left) the Century Cinema. The latter was opened in 1928 by the actress Evelyn Laye.

The cottage opposite was at one time the village post office.

This shot includes Overy's hairdresser's, the post office, Charlton's newsagent's, and (on the extreme left) the Century Cinema. The latter was opened in 1928 by the actress Evelyn Laye.

The White Hart was once a posting house from which stagecoaches made daily runs to Hull, Doncaster and Sheffield.

Further along Park Street we find Lower Gordon Road; the Post Office, run by a Mr H L Love, is on the corner. The premises have since been converted into a private house.

An early 20th-century view of that bastion of English life, the Post Office. Here is a lovely half- timbered building in this picturesque little village on the Canterbury road.