Acknowledgments
With thanks to the Postmasters and their staff who made us welcome and shared their local knowledge to help us, to the Chairs of the Community Councils who made us welcome and generously gave their time not only to share their views but to meet and share local contact information. Finally our very great thanks to everyone in the communities who gave up their time to share and record their views on the role of post offices in rural communities. Without all these people's help and time this work would not have been possible.
With thanks to Fionagh Thomson, SEERAD, for supporting and promoting participatory approaches for this research and for the editorial of this report.
Copyright
Ordnance survey maps ©Crown Copyright 2005. All rights reserved Scottish Executive Licence number: 100020540 2005 Photographs © Vikki Hilton