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Next to the Post Office, Snow's the butchers were well- known for their Piggy Porker Sausages and, indeed, used to advertise them on the side of their delivery-van.

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.

A new, bigger post office lies between them. Hence the focus of the town was gradually moved.

Next to the post office the Old Shambles has lost its battlements, even so Steward's shop is surviving below.

The village also had a well-known post-type windmill, which was sited by the main road.The 14th-century Blackboys Inn has been recently restored after fire damage.

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

It became known as Perch Rock Lighthouse because the reef of rock on which it stands (seen here at low tide) once had a post or 'perch' placed on it to warn shipping of its location.

With its wall-mounted Victorian letterbox, modern telephone box, and window display of assorted goods, this little post office was of central importance to the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small

Further down this lane, the centre of Lower Limpley Stoke is reached, with the Hop Pole Inn on the left, the post office and village shop on the right, and the garage beyond, although the Esso sign has

The next three cottages, including the former post office, are dated 1770, but they may be older. At the end is the Museum in the former Victorian Reading Room.

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.

A car speeds past - the event was recorded on slow film, so the image is blurred.

Attractive lamp posts line the pavement. In the right hand corner the fencing around the War Memorial can be seen. Southend The War Memorial

In the centre of town, Baxtergate contained the post office, The Angel Hotel (telephone number Whitby 57) and St John's Church, as well as many shops.

Nowadays, we have been sucked in to thinking that convenience shopping is something wonderful, village shops, post offices, and even pubs are in decline.

In the centre of town, Baxtergate contained the post office, The Angel Hotel (telephone number Whitby 57) and St John's Church, as well as many shops.

During one year there would be other changes; a zebra crossing was later removed, and the older lamp posts with wrought iron branches would be discarded in favour of tall concrete poles.

Post offices had long opening hours. Delivery boys gather outside the main doors, carrying parcels to and from the city's shops and businesses.

Outside the stables of the Shelley Arms Hotel, a large 18th century coaching inn, produce stalls display items for sale.A car speeds past—the event was recorded on slow film, so the image is blurred

Westminster House (left) is the only post war addition on view. Power cables for trolley buses and gaps in the pedestrian island evoke this era of road transport.

On the extreme left is Botley Post Office, and next to it is a chemists; the former is now a dress shop, and the latter remains a pharmacy.

The church is now flanked by different buildings: Rubie's on the left made way in 1928 for the rather good stone-clad neo-Georgian Post Office with its circular porch.

Blundells at No 135 advertises post-war Utility furniture, and Belisha beacons have joined the street furniture to identify pedestrian crossings.

The north winds have taken their toll and bent the lamp-posts which illuminate this slope during the evening.