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In the 1970s the Ramsbury Building Society opened a branch office here.

It is also rightly famous for being on the new (1905) branch line from Prestatyn, which was the first in North Wales to use the new motor train.

Folkestone is now known as a cross-channel port which developed in early Victorian days, and a steeply-graded branch railway line was built from the main line to the harbour.

The rails here are presumably a siding, for the Tavistock line ran across the picture a little way past the far end of the terrace, while the Princetown branch curved round to the south (left, well out

A branch of Barclays Bank is on the left and WH Smith is on the right of the picture.

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.

Little trace of the railway remains today (Broadstone Leisure Centre stands on much of it), but this was once a busy junction, where the Bournemouth main branch crossed the London, Southampton

Corn and coal merchants sell proprietary animal feeds.We can also see London House, a draper’s, Branch’s shop, a dairy and a game and poultry shop.

There are two mill streams, one known as the Barton River, from which water is provided for the Itchen Navigation Canal, and this branch, which follows the Fair Oak Road with Montague Terrace on the right

Banstead station, on the branch line from Sutton to Epsom Downs station, opened in 1865.

Cornwall's most westerly branch line, just 4 miles long, was opened from St Erth to St Ives in 1877.

As retailers of pianos, organs and gramophones they faced stiff competition from their rivals Thompson & Shackell whose two Cardiff branches underpinned their dominance of the South Wales

The village sign shown on the right of the photograph depicts a cuckoo, a rebus for Cuckfield, whilst the village stores (left) were a branch of Spar and also housed the local post office

Typically, the Lloyds Bank branch has gone.

Also on Queen's Road was the Bristol branch of the Antivivisection Society.

The railway reached Portrush with the construction of a short branch line from Coleraine on the Belfast to Londonderry line.

The building to the left of it is now a branch of Nat West.

The station buildings and goods sheds are at the junction between the main line and the Newquay branch.

A line of trees (left) has had to be pollarded; they were planted long before motorised traffic was thought of, and their branches were a threat to safety.

On the right the branch of Teekoff Ltd, with its coffee-roasting machine prominent in the near window, would entice customers from the bus stop on the opposite pavement with its fragrant aromas.

Tiverton was actually a branch from the main line.

The Aylesbury Arm was branch from the Grand Junction Canal, later the Grand Union Canal, which ran from near Marsworth across the Vale to Aylesbury; it opened in 1815, twenty years after it was first authorised

There are also many retail outlets in evidence, as well as a branch of Midland Bank (now HSBC, of course) on the right.

It is sad that with the development of a large shopping centre in Telford town centre, Oakengates no longer attracts shoppers as it once did - even the branch of Woolworth we see here has