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The fells sheltering this village, most of which lies at the foot of this steep main street, rise to 1,000ft. The rest of the village follows the high road above the River Ribble.

The post office has moved, and is no longer in the far distance on the right of the road.

This building had Manchester's Telephone Exchange on the top floor - the posts carrying each line can be seen on the roof.

far afield for the older generation, then there were plenty of seats and shelters along the clifftop where one could sit in the sun or the shade, and catch up with the news in the Yorkshire Post

There is little in the picture to indicate that the town was about to enter an era of prosperity as a 'honey pot'. As an example, consider the size of the Post Office on the left of Bedford Street.

The Angel Inn (later the Wheatsheaf) served as the main staging post for travellers.

The thatch of the old post office has given way to slate (left), and the business itself - with its attendant telephone kiosk - has moved just a few doors down.

The post office is in the adjacent building off to the right of the photograph.

Arthur Bunting (left) dealt in woollens and linen; Curl Brothers owned the huge shop on the right of the picture, which was floodlit at night by the eight lamp posts erected on the pavement.

Post-war he was a county councillor and a member of the Board of Finance for the Salisbury diocese.

This post-war photograph shows a very different scene compared to the way it looks today.

Looking down High Street we see, right, North End Cottage, now the post office. On the left is the Old Hall and the Catholic church, Our Lady of Mount Grace.

The other properties towards A R Steward's shop have been at various times a post office, a hardware store, and a chemist's.

This busy junction, uniting five roads, including Northampton Road and Sheep Street, was lit by a single, central lamp post.

The battlemented tower of St Bartholomew's (left) just shows above the row of rather good brick and tile cottages, into which the post office has been thrust.

The window that you can see to the left of the lamp-post now has modern stained glass in it, in wonderful reds and oranges, to depict the flames of the bombing; it was designed as a tribute to the Cathedral

All the buildings have changed proprietors except the big white building with the three dormer windows, which is still the post office.

The tomb in the foreground is that of King John (1167-1216), the first post-Conquest monarch to be buried in England. He lies here at Worcester at his own request.

The cottage with the smoking chimney was rebuilt in about 1910, and houses the Clifton Hampden Post Office and General Stores.

The battlemented tower of St Bartholomew's (left) just shows above the row of rather good brick and tile cottages, into which the post office has been thrust.

The Robinsons were major employers in the town, owing the success of their business activities to the burgeoning TV rental market of the post-war years.

The man standing on the jetty, in the right-hand middle ground inland of the lamp-post, gesticulates with his left arm as he addresses the small group seated in front of him; they appear

A man appears to be painting the posts on which the boy was playing in photograph 64564. He is old enough to have been that boy!

Both horse and cart and motor car are parked outside Wealden Hall House; at the time of the photograph it was trading as the Post Office, and advertising itself as selling 'Drapery, Outfitting, Grocery