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The Castle and Ball Hotel, an old established commercial hotel and posting house on the north side of the High Street, has a distinctive tile-hung front with pierced barge-boards decorating

In the immediate post-war era, Luton was a medium sized town - albeit a county borough - about to become very much larger.

The black smock mill Jack is conserved, while the white post mill Jill is in full working order and open to visitors.

The large building in the centre was formerly known as the Angel Inn and, as the sign above the door still testifies today, was 'Licensed To Let Post Horses'.

In the 1930s, Albert Lee was running the Post Office in Lower Eype and Thomas Lee was the farmer.

Here on the left is Sundial Cottage (1830), once the post office. The village pump has been taken away, but the old smithy (centre), later a hearse house, remains.

Run by Victor Lock and his son, with telephone number Bere Regis 1, this was the post office from 1927 till 1973, when it moved to West Street.

The post office is now a funeral director's.

This village of great beauty is said to be the most photographed in Hertfordshire.

Just after the lane stands what was in the 1950s the Old Windmill Tea Rooms - it had been the post office in the 1930s. Today it is a private residence.

The Grand Union Canal emerges from the Braunston Tunnel east of Braunston village and descends past the village on a flight of six locks. This view looks west along the High Street.

To its left is the post office, located in an imposing brick fronted building of 1799. The market place still serves as a car park.

Lloyds Bank (centre right) is now Littleham Post Office, and E Prior the newsagent's (right) is now a tropical fish shop.

In the 1930s, Albert Lee was running the Post Office in Lower Eype and Thomas Lee was the farmer.

This photograph looks north past the garage, now rebuilt as a BP petrol station. Beyond is the almost inevitable Surrey mock-Tudor half-timbered shopping parade.

This area is illuminated by beautiful, ornate lamp posts. The Victorian lavatories under the steps with their decorative brickwork and small domes are a work of art.

The third building belongs to Mr Newman, the newsagent who also ran the post office. Next door is Siddalls, a family firm who have been selling shoes and handbags since 1936.

The telephone kiosk is of a more modern type, and the shop front has been developed and a post box placed outside. A tall chimney on an outbuilding, leans considerably; this has now been rebuilt.

All this is now reduced to the anonymous, all-purpose architecture of the post office and similar expanding contemporary development, particularly on the north side of the village.

L T Gamblin's village smithy with the cycles leaning against it has gone the way of most forges and is now a shop, Poppy's Delicatessen, while the post office is now the Beauty Gallery and has lost

On the far left is the Post Office Inn. Horwood's fancy goods shop is on the corner with Bedford Street (right).

Later brick houses also feature, including the Blisworth Post Office and Stores in the middle distance. The corner shop advertising Tizer is now a house.

The village store, which is the present Post Office (right) was advertising Venus Soap (enamel sign on fence), Fry's Chocolate and Fry's Pure Cocoa (windows), and Dr Sutherland's report on patent Rua Tea

The post office, that, in about 1910, replaced Mrs Crowley's premises, was in the style of Queen Anne. It is on the right with the modillioned cornice and pediment.