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Outside Holroyd's shop and post office is a sign warning of a low bridge ahead. Opposite this leafy corner was the vicarage, now a private house.

The Post Office is to the left, the Harris Public Library on the right, and the County Sessions Hall in the middle.

The Post Office building dates from the 16th century.

In more modern times the town was a major coaching post on the great North Road, and many fine inns survive here.

Good's Stores, bakery, Post Office and café was fire-damaged in the 1970s.The site has now been redeveloped for housing.The Blue Idol is a Quaker Friends Meeting House and guesthouse which was converted

Most of the houses are 19th-century, including the shop (dated 1881) on the corner of Ray Lane beyond the now relocated war memorial cross. It is now a private house called The Old Post Office.

A small hollow post wind pump for land drainage, the mill had shuttered sails and was turned to the wind by twin tail vanes. The shutters in the sails were set manually, one sail at a time.

This is a fine old Sussex downland post mill with a domesticated structure enclosing the trestle. Powered by two common cloth sails, the mill was turned into the wind by means of a tailpole.

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

Further along is a newsagents where Picture Post and Farmers' Weekly are advertised. Next door was the Market Tavern.

By the post-war period traffic had increased, so traffic lights were installed (see K13018, pages 52). The KICS (Co-op) drapery building with Jacobean bay windows can be seen down Newland Street.

A straight and wide road leading to the quay creates an impression of past importance. The Romans, the Saxons and the Vikings used the area for invasion.

The only post- medieval feature is the Georgian dormers in the steep roof. The school is an undoubted success, and a great asset to the town.

Most, however, has been demolished to make way for a new dual carriageway through the town.

The house with the shop front facing the camera is now named the Old Post Office.

This view looks north up Church Street with No 15 on the left, a medieval house with a good crown post roof, and on the right the toy shop with the evocative names of makes of toy on its facade is now

This photograph captures the great changes that were going on in Blackburn during the post-war period.

before this picture was taken, there were at least two farms off Bramhall Lane, as well as Miss Hooley's private school, Bramhall Grammar School, the consulting rooms of two physicians and surgeons, a post

Most of the attractive lamp-posts are used for advertising. The policeman in the foreground is casting a watchful and perhaps thirsty eye on the wine barrels being transported slowly up the street.

The Post Office is to the left, the Harris Public Library on the right, and the County Sessions Hall in the middle.

A lane leads south-west from the green by the former post office to St Paul's Church and Culham Manor.

On the left just off camera is Christ Church, and over to the right is the Post Office.

Further along is a newsagents where Picture Post and Farmers' Weekly are advertised. Next door was the Market Tavern.

The village of Cranley originally took its name from the craneries at Baynards and Vachery to the south, but it was renamed Cranleigh in 1867 at the instigation of the Post Office because of confusion