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The Bull Hotel in the centre of the picture is still described as a 'Posting House'.

The post office we see here on the right is now a private house; the door between the windows has been blocked up, leaving an entrance only from the side.

The author Flora Thompson lived here for a time just before the 1930s because her husband worked at the local post office. She wrote part of her book 'Lark Rise to Candleford' here.

The Little Shop was formerly a stationer's, and Sanders, to its right, was the post office.

The post office moved next door to the White Hart from the newsagent across the road in 1945.

Occupying the corner, right of centre, is Thorogood's ('Fancy Pastry Cook') - originally built as the town's first post office in the early 1870s.

The fencing on the left has now been replaced by a wire fence and the sign post, still on its grassy triangle, has been modernised and now includes directions to the M25.

There are a number of old posters sticking to the walls - these days there is a discreet sign which tells us that 'Bill Posting is now Prohibited'.

In 1922 the Post Office built one of its well-designed Neo-Georgian buildings next to the London Guarantee and Accident Company on the left. It is now a Yates Wine Lodge.

hill.Wright's Garage, on the right, emphasises that shortly after the First World War the internal combustion engine had begun to supersede the railways.The half-timbered building is the Cross Keys.The Post

The chains on posts are still here to protect rowers from the hazards of the weir.

Posing for the photographer, or genuinely posting a letter? It is hard to tell, but the beribboned young girl with the ringlets and the delightfully impractical dress is worth a picture.

The post office on the right superseded the toll house on the turnpike (1711). Note the semicircular door made to reflect the similar shape of the toll keeper's office.

The post office stores is partly hidden behind the leaves on the left.

The post office and general stores are still at the same site today at the summit of the hill and near the crossroads (though the proprietors have changed).

This photograph appears to show a quiet village where nothing much happens apart from an amble down to the post office to buy a few stamps.

Basically a grocery shop and off-licence, it also accommodated Wickford's post office around the time of our picture. The in-store café can be seen to the extreme left.

This solidly-built Edwardian shop is still trading as the Post Office, despite some alteration; it stands on the way down to the former station site.

The Wheatsheaf Inn, for many years an important staging post on the Brighton to Hastings route, was rebuilt in 1886.

The water pump has been refurbished and joined by a telephone box, a cast iron sign and lamp posts.

This building, along with Nos 42 and 43, were demolished, and a modern post office was opened on 10 June 1959 by Sir David Eccles, MP for Chippenham.

The White Bull pub (right) is still in existence, but many of the other buildings have gone, and so have the telegraph posts and school sign (left).

Post-war reconstruction and redevelopment of the Moor was just one of many schemes to rebuild the city. As well as on commercial and retail developments, a major effort was made on housing.

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.