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The Wellington Hotel, still in business today, was one of the last posting houses in the country, with stage coaches running into the 1920s.

The Post Office was moved to the High Street in 1949.

The wooden stumps (bottom left) are known as strapping posts, and were used to tie up boats.

The National Provincial Bank on the right is now the post office, while the shops on the left have since been demolished to make way for a car park.

Next to the Post Office, Snow's the butchers were well- known for their Piggy Porker Sausages and, indeed, used to advertise them on the side of their delivery-van.

Nine years before it was taken, a young Flora Thompson, who wrote the trilogy 'Lark Rise to Candleford', came to Grayshott to work at the post office.

A new, bigger post office lies between them.

Next to the post office the Old Shambles has lost its battlements, even so Steward's shop is surviving below.

The village also had a well-known post-type windmill, which was sited by the main road.The 14th-century Blackboys Inn has been recently restored after fire damage.

Judging by the slogan on the rectory wall, not everyone was happy with the post-war Conservative government.

It became known as Perch Rock Lighthouse because the reef of rock on which it stands (seen here at low tide) once had a post or 'perch' placed on it to warn shipping of its location.

With its wall-mounted Victorian letterbox, modern telephone box, and window display of assorted goods, this little post office was of central importance to the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small

Further down this lane, the centre of Lower Limpley Stoke is reached, with the Hop Pole Inn on the left, the post office and village shop on the right, and the garage beyond, although the Esso sign has

The next three cottages, including the former post office, are dated 1770, but they may be older.

Next to the post office, Snow's the butchers were well-known for their Piggy Porker sausages - indeed, they used to advertise them on the side of their delivery-van.

A car speeds past - the event was recorded on slow film, so the image is blurred.

Attractive lamp posts line the pavement.

In the centre of town, Baxtergate contained the post office, The Angel Hotel (telephone number Whitby 57) and St John's Church, as well as many shops.

Nowadays, we have been sucked in to thinking that convenience shopping is something wonderful, village shops, post offices, and even pubs are in decline.

In the centre of town, Baxtergate contained the post office, The Angel Hotel (telephone number Whitby 57) and St John's Church, as well as many shops.

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.

Post offices had long opening hours.

Outside the stables of the Shelley Arms Hotel, a large 18th century coaching inn, produce stalls display items for sale.A car speeds past—the event was recorded on slow film, so the image is blurred

Westminster House (left) is the only post war addition on view.