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The earlier town hall was burned down during the post-First World War disturbances in July 1919.

The plans were part of a post-war improvement scheme which originated in a town plan produced by Mattocks and Allen, two town planners with visionary ideas.

Cosby presents a most unusual configuration for a Leicestershire village, which with care and attention over the years could have been described as picturesque.

The few cars and heavy queues for buses seen here tell their own story about city transport and life in post-war Wales.

On 30 October 1940 German bombs fell on the village post office and cottages.

There is a new lamp post and a bench in front of the conduit, and the carriage of the Russian cannon can just be glimpsed behind. As a market town, Wells would be expected to have a market cross.

Bennison's Store (right) closed in 1958, and has been a post office and general store ever since.

This position was later used in the Napoleonic wars and finally in the 2nd World War as an anti-aircraft gunnery post. Now Fort Paull, restored in 2000, is an absorbing war museum.

Next along there was the sorting house of the Post Office, built in 1956 on the site of the old Barnardo's, and after that came the offices of the newly nationalised utilities.

This is the T-junction at the centre of Hurst Green, seen here in the gentle post-war years. This stretch of road has a history all of its own.

The gas lamp denotes the post office at number 16 Westgate, and next to it at number 14 we find Mr Franks, a baker's and confectioner's and dining rooms.

The post (centre left) marks the site of a set of iron gates which prevented vehicles from entering the yard during church services.

Until the 1850s, the Navy offered little in the way of pre-sea training to recruits; they were simply posted to a ship, where they learned their craft from experienced hands.

The post office, run by the King family from 1871 to 1987, has again recently been put up for sale.

On the skyline is the newly-opened (1909) Post Office.

On the left stands the Bell Hotel, established, according to the wording over the door, in 1515; it was the departure point for the tri-weekly London coach from Swindon, and the post office in the

Most of the islanders at that time were extremely poor, and like the inhabitants of other coastal areas saw smuggling as a way of augmenting their poverty-stricken existence.

The 1898 view shows the earlier type of blinds used by the shops to protect their goods: the awning is supported on wooden posts driven into the road surface.

The Petty Sessions were held here until 1882, and over the years the premises were also a posting house, a railway booking office and an Excise and Inland Revenue office.

Behind the bank was the Post Office (1907-1988) and the magnificent Empire Theatre (3rd July 1909 to 24th April 1955) whose closure, caused by TV and cinema, was so sudden that the stars booked for the

In 1878 Alexander Graham Bell revisited his native land to demonstrate the telephone to the British Association meeting hosted by Lord Kelvin.

Below and to the right of St Mary's Church we can see the gable end of the Old Post Office.

The letter box beneath the lamp post has gone. The sign on the far right of the picture directs visitors to Wells Museum on the left.

The post-war, post-colonial world saw Britain's dominance further reduced.