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Tipton St John is on the Sidmouth branch line, which ran from 1874 to 1967.
On the right, with a branch of Barclay's Bank on the corner, is Stour Street.
As well as the Midland Bank on the left and the Windsor Arms on the right, this picture also features a branch of Thomas & Evans on the right-hand side of the picture.
Further east, 18th-century Mansfield House on the right with its two canted bay windows and pedimented doorcase is the best building, while the one with three dormers beyond is now a county branch library
By mid-summer the signpost on the lamp standard would have been removed under new war-time emergency regulations and, in the face of increasing food rationing, the branch of United Dairies on the left
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
Typically, the Lloyds Bank branch has gone.
Also on Queen's Road was the Bristol branch of the Antivivisection Society.
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.
Amble became a centre for coal exports, and was served by a branch line of the North Eastern Railway.
The splendid Westminster Bank building on the corner of Mercers Row, distinguished by its striking dome, is now a branch of Nationwide; the tall, narrow building to the right of it is a jeweller and diamond
The new mill was built around 1800 to take advantage of the Grand Union Canal's Wendover Arm or branch canal that opened in 1797.
After the new school was built in 1967, part of this building was used as a branch library for Braunston.
In the mid-1960s the Bedfordshire branch of the Sporting Owner Drivers Club (SODC - known as The Sods) used a steep hill not too far from the location of this picture as the regular venue
Timpson's Shoes were a chain store with branches all over Britain.
It was paralleled 79 years later with the opening of the Wiltshire, Somerset & Weymouth railway line, and its branch line from here to Bridport and West Bay.
Since then it has changed ownership twice, first becoming part of the Lewis Owen Owen group, and then in 1996 a branch of Allders.
On the left is Home & Colonial, which by this date had several hundred branches.
