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A railway branch from Par on the main line helped develop Newquay as a holiday and bathing resort after it fully opened in 1876, and the entrance to the station terminus is up the street on the left.
In the branch of Gammons, the tailors and outfitters, Jack Phillips, who was chief wireless telegraphist on the 'Titanic', was born in 1887.
Next door at number 26 is a sub-branch of the Union Bank of Manchester, whilst further along is Ward's greengrocers and Rogers' chemist and druggist store.
The Sheffield branch of Thomas Cook & Son is dwarfed by its neighbour, Woodhouses.
The size of the Looe Hotel in Fore Street reflects the growing tourist industry, which was stimulated at Looe by a railway branch that had been connected to the main line system just seven years before
In 1959 Foster's moved to new premises in Great Square, and the building became the Braintree branch of the Midland Bank.
In 1959 Foster's moved to new premises in Great Square, and the building became the Braintree branch of the Midland Bank.
This road was cut into High Street to give access to Chesham's terminus station on the Metropolitan Railway branch opened in 1889.
'Phildelphus Jeyes' was a local business then, a branch of the chain set up by Philadelphus Jeyes of Northampton - the inventor of the disinfectant, Jeyes Fluid.
The corner shops are now a Nottingham Building Society branch.
Westmill stood near the northern end of the now-closed Buntingford Branch Railway line, and was famous for its almost forgotten Folk Museum.
Webbs had branches in ten other towns, so they could safely claim to be 'The Midland Counties Outfitter'.
The latter is a branch of Bonnetts, who were originally founded around 1804.
The branch line opened on 24 August 1903 and closed on 29 November 1965.
The cinema was demolished as part of the post-war redevelopment, and its replacement building eventually became part of Winch & Blatch.
It is now occupied by a branch of Superdrug.
Behind the Barley Mow pub in the centre of the picture, the northern and southern branches of the River Wey unite.
Half way between London and Edinburgh on the busy Great North Road, Ferrybridge was a hub, with smaller roads branching off into West Yorkshire.
On the right is a branch of the London and County Bank, with Dorset's shop next door exhibiting a gleaming display of light fittings.
A branch of Stead and Simpson, a shoe shop, is on the right directly opposite Cash & Co, also a shoe shop.
