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Another well-known multi-national dominates this view; the branch has been here since about 1930, though the left-hand extension is a post-War development on the site of the Cinema de Luxe, which burned

The St Erth to St Ives branch line, the last broad gauge railway to be built, was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1877.

Along here were branches of both national and Cheshire retailers including Dewhurst, the butchers, and Waterworths.

This branch line canal was built to link with Telford's last canal, the Shropshire Union canal.

The branch railway arrived in Ashburton in 1872, but did little to revive the town's fortunes.

Here we see the railway junction for the Uppingham branch, although little remains today to show that the railway passed through.

Today a branch of Blockbuster Video occupies the site.

Over the years Bordon expanded as a civilian community, and it also developed as a training ground used by military units and other branches of the Armed Forces.

It lies adjacent to the older village of Rossington, but took over in importance when mining became the local industry, gaining its own branch of the Doncaster Co-operative Society, seen on the right.

This view looks across the broad expanse of firm sands to a goods train, which is probably carrying slate on the now-vanished harbour branch of the railway.

E A Hodges has become just another branch of Dillons, presumably as a result of a take-over.

An architect-designed villa on the left has probably recently been built in this settlement, which is just north of Callington and at the terminus of the railway branch line from Plymouth.

On this side of town the Midland operated a short goods branch to Brampton.

In the 1960s it was home to a branch of the Runcorn and Widnes Industrial Co-Operative Society.

It now houses a branch of Boots, the chemists, and all the plaster on the front façade has been recently removed revealing a beautiful jettied timber building.

St Mawes lies on a sheltered branch off Falmouth harbour.

Jax, a cheerful low-price dress shop for younger customers, replaced the more staid Co-op; Millett's, which began by selling army surplus goods, branched into camping equipment and tough outdoor clothes

Wainwright the chemist's (right) is an old Eastleigh firm that until recently survived in the centre of the town, but this branch has become a showroom for heating appliances.

There was a Co-op branch in this street, and Mainwaring`s (extreme left) was an important store here.

George Oliver`s shoe shop (left) was one of several Cornish branches in the early 20th century; it still exists in a modernised form as Messrs Timpson.