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Their attention has been attracted by a fisherman handling a box on the beach, whcih could have been handed down by the person inside the boat.

In this picture we can see an old telephone box on the left and the local garage on the right.

The gardener of nearly 40 years ago would be pleased that the box bushes on the left remain today.

A pillar box has now appeared between Mackereth's and John Neale's shop on the right. By now there is both horse-drawn and motor traffic on King Street.

The public telephone box outside the post office reflects an era before mobile phones became commonplace, whilst the right-hand shop window of P L Greenway, 'grocer and provision dealer', is typical of

Although not the post office at the time of this photograph, the post box outside must have been an omen of things to come, because today the building houses the Drayton Post Office and Stores.

This one was known as Andover Town - we can just see the sign on the right, by the post box. This station has gone, and now there is just one to serve the town.

The pavement here is a jungle of Belisha beacons, old-fashioned street lamps, telegraph poles, A-boards, bus-stops, and an unusual white phone-box.

The cinema (left) offers 'Easter Parade' with Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, or a boxing match between Freddy Mills and Joe Woodcock.

In the spring, when the little gardens and window boxes are filled with flowers, Otterton is one of the delights of the county.

Covent Garden Market was the main fruit and vegetable market for the area north of the Thames until 1974.

Here we see C Sparkes' corner shop; there are large advertisements fixed to the wall, and one for Wills' Woodbines attached to the fence. There is also a post box.

The scaffolding visible in B233057 (page 78) has been replaced by this 1960s box, hardly a worthy successor to Appleby's Corner.

It was notorious in the 19th century for the activities which Redditch men got up to in the field behind the pub.

Again, the buildings are the same today - in fact the only difference is the addition of a telephone box in front of Willoughby House on the left.

But the post box has crossed the road to be near the new Post Office on the left, and the pillared building on the extreme left is now a Pizza Express.

Levens Hall is a fine Elizabethan mansion built for the Bagot family around 1580, around a 14th-century pele tower.

Another view of this central shopping area, demonstrating the planners' clear intention to incorporate greenery in the shape of existing trees, and the flower boxes on the central island reservation.

The garage (centre left) belongs to Smith and Wesby, agents for Morris with cars for hire, who are still there today.

The post office (right) may have been purposely built in the late 19th century; outside is the red letter box and telephone kiosk.

Behind the car, with its familiar DG Gloucestershire registration, is one of Stroud's surviving Victorian pillar-boxes.

Opposite is the post office, with a pillar box outside.

The large house on the left is Brewery House, and behind the post box is Brewery Barn with Brewery Cottages close by.

The telephone box on the right has gone, and the bowls green has been created behind the bungalows.