Sycamore cottage Staunton 1880's (General)

by Mike Pinchin , Bedford, England, Friday, May 22, 2015, 20:40 (3467 days ago) @ Mientajb

This map, surveyed 1878-80, shows a building close to the White Horse as a smithy, and the Post Office elsewhere in Staunton.

http://maps.nls.uk/view/101453349

In 1900 the Post Office is in the same place.

By 1920 the Post Office seems to be a building opposite the old smithy.

By 1943 the old smithy building is marked as the Post Office

http://maps.nls.uk/view/101453340

I guess that there’s a decent chance that James CARVER from your query about the White House (Horse) might have been the smith in 1881.