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The two girls are wearing knitted hats, an essential part of post-war dress.

In the days when Botley was an important staging post on the coach route, the village boasted as many as fourteen inns. William Cobbett described Botley as 'the most delightful village in the world.'

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

Its quaint and gracious market-place hosts some Royal Mail and GPO vans, plus a selection of post-war cars.

Just past the Village Green, the Boot (left), one of the oldest pubs in the village, and the Barley Mow beyond, are both still trading, although the General Stores between them has been demolished to make

Here we see the village post office and shop, which sells toys and gifts. A well-maintained semi-circular bed of roses has been planted on the forecourt - oh for a dash of colour!

Here we see The Blue Boar with its fine Tuscan porch (left), and opposite, The Retreat (now the post office).

Taken from the edge of Parsonage Woods to the north of the town, this view, almost unchanged today, looks past the cornfield towards the historic market town nestling in its Chiltern valley.

The big Greek portico of the General Post Office of 1818 is prominent in the centre of the picture. It played a central part in the Easter Rising in 1916.

Or could it be that his local is Fred Ireland's saloon bar, next to the first lamp post on the right?

The Huer's House is identical today, even down to the granite railing posts. Sited up on the headland near the harbour, this is where the huer waited to spot incoming pilchard shoals.

The wooden stumps (bottom left) are known as strapping posts, and were used to tie up boats. Their state in this view appears to be somewhat poor.

Here in Fore Street the shops include the post office and a hairdresser. A parked motor bike and sidecar is the only traffic.

Nine years before it was taken, a young Flora Thompson, who wrote the trilogy 'Lark Rise to Candleford', came to Grayshott to work at the post office.

Judging by the slogan on the rectory wall, not everyone was happy with the post-war Conservative government.

Next to the post office, Snow's the butchers were well-known for their Piggy Porker sausages - indeed, they used to advertise them on the side of their delivery-van.

First local schools have closed, and then shops, post offices and pubs have followed suit. Sometimes the only way to retain these facilities has been to combine them under one roof.

On the right is G W Roy's fancy repository and the post office, and just beyond that is the Black Horse pub.

This little store and village post office is well remembered for being run for many years by the Moody family. Although the shop area is a little smaller, it is still going today.

This is a post mill, like the one at Saxstead; it dates from 1803, and it was moved here from nearby Aldringham in 1923.

The Old Lion and Lamb was formerly a coaching inn, one of the oldest posting houses on the Great North Road, and associated with the Bishops of Lincoln's palace at Buckden Towers.

On the left of the High Street are the premises of Henfield Post Office and the National Provincial Bank, now defunct.

In the centre of the photograph behind the advertising hoarding is the post office, which later became a wine bar.

The quaint old building to the right of centre still serves as the village post office and shop today. It is quite small, but it is elaborately decorated on its front outer wall.