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It is a busy day in post-war Dorchester, which looks almost as though everyone in Dorset has come for their shopping.

Dutton post office, on the left, has gone, and been replaced by a new housing estate.

The post office/stores is now a computer business, with a new stores opposite.

D & E Flack's (left) was a general store and post office serving the area north of the Southend road. By the end of the 1950s, outlying shops were competing with the new Town Centre development.

Built in the early 18th century, this post mill stopped grinding corn in 1897, and deteriorated badly after this photograph was taken.

The post office is on the left with its sign outside.

Most rationing had ended by now, but you still needed sweet coupons to spend your sixpence or shilling pocket money at this thatched Post Office and general stores.

The black-painted post mill with four patent sails is turned to the wind manually by a tailpole. Located near to a golf course, it was built in about 1765 and ceased work in about 1870.

The parade of shops still exists and the corner shop is still open, but the Post Office sign has disappeared.

The Red Lion Hotel beyond it has gone, now replaced by Red Lion Court, and Mrs Odell now runs the new post office (to the left of the chapel) - the old one closed in 2000.

This attractive thatched building still houses the village post office, except that it has moved to the right, where we can see a pram and a dog.

The 'Family Shop' - the post office and stores on the left - is now a watch repairer's. The baker's next door still has its Hovis sign, but it is a computer business now.

The event is further commemorated in Broadgate by a puppet clock which dates from Coventry's post-war reconstruction.

This is the old Eastleigh Road, and we can see the post office and the telephone kiosk on the left. We are looking towards the old oak tree, which is just out of sight at the end of the road.

Shatz & Sons (fourth from the right) was a furnishing business established in 1891, with a wholesale warehouse in the High Street and a showroom in Post Office Lane.

The post office is also a 'Savings Bank' and 'Money Order Office'. Bus timetables announce United Counties services.

In the post-war period the provision of Local Authority housing increased to meet the demands of a rising population.

The lamp post still stands, but without its light, and beside it Ulverston's war memorial has been erected.

Traditionally, retail outlets built on the approaches to railway stations serving local lines have proved to be most profitable.

Opposite - a sign of the post-Great War years: a Ministry of Labour Employment Exchange.

The event is further commemorated in Broadgate by a puppet clock which dates from Coventry's post-war reconstruction.

In this later photograph, Preston's war memorial now occupies the open space in front of the Post Office.

Shops and a post office overlook the junction in the centre of the village by the railway station. Just along Station Road, on the left by the chemist is the Marine Café.

Over the years it has lost one chimneystack. All the telegraph posts have also disappeared. The fence is more substantial now, as it is a tall green hedge.