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This view looks across to the general store and post office; its clock, inscribed 'Weale's Coal Order Office', and Howard Weale's shop sign both survive.

Ropergate also had the County Court Office, right, and nearer town, the old post office.

By 1960, the pedestrian crossing over Westgate had been moved to its present position, in the foreground of this view.

Later photographs from the 1950s show no change to the building apart from the addition of a hanging sign at the front, and the replacement of the gas lamp-post with an electric, concrete one.

The post office is clearly identifiable from the telegraph wires on its roof; it relocated to this site in 1858. In 1950 Mr W J Griffiths was postmaster.

On the right are the Edwardian buildings occupied by Marlow's from 1925 to 1975, Watson's Post Office and the Queens Head.

In the background (centre) is the Market House, erected in 1836, which was converted to the post office in 1923 by building between and behind its open colonnade.

The building in front of the church was the vicarage; it replaced the original, which stood in Burr's meadow behind the concrete posts and fencing on the left of the picture.

Bicycles piled against the lamp post on the right constitute a thief's delight with not a padlock and chain between them. And the piled tins in the shop window?

The newsagent on the corner survived until recently, and the post office has moved up the road a little.

The Post Office has transferred to Brand Street; Briggs & Co., the Leicester Boot Company with its impressive gilded sign, and the Maypole Dairy, share its old premises.

The wooden posts erected to mark out the gardens of the row stopped visitors peer- ing through the windows, and helped give the inhabitants a little bit of privacy.

Next door, with the two gabled doorways, stands the post office, built in 1887 on the site of the Old Court House.

The Norman church keeps the registers of Kingston, a village long lost due to coastal erosion. Highdown Hill, 269 feet high, was a Roman dwelling place and Saxon burial ground.

Down the north side of the street are the post office, and the Great House, where William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham brought his 15-year-old son, Pitt the Younger, to recover from illness

As this is a market town, the town centre has a remarkable number of hotels and hostelries; on the right is the Griffin Hotel, established in the 16th century, an important posting house

Behind the Post Office is the Parish Church with its 16th-century tower - it became a cathedral in 1918.

Port Sunlight was the dream of William Lever, a man who believed that there was good in everyone; only the best would do for his workers and employees.

For example, 'stage coaches, post chaises or sociable Berlins' cost 3d, droves of oxen or cows 3d per score and calves or hogs a halfpenny less.

On the other side of the road is the lamp-post which was first in the Market Square, with its black-painted cast iron base.

The dramatic 150 ft spire of this church dedicated to St Mary soars over the Tenby rooftops, and is reputedly the largest parish church in Wales.

The Cheam Brewery had previously occupied this site from the 12th century, and its cellars lie underneath the triangular grassed areas marked by white posts with linking chains.

Wilkinson's took over from Fine Fare (right) at the same time as the decorated art work on the pediment above the blank front was lost.

They now share a tomb and epitaph: 'Inmate in grave, he took his grandchild heir, Whose soul did haste to make to him repair, And so to heaven along as little page With him did post, to wait upon