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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.

In this photograph we see it as a branch office of the Alliance Assurance Company - notice the Alliance sign on the right-hand edge of the wall.

The church of St John the Baptist is in the village of Carnaby, which is just over two miles from Bridlington and was on the Scarborough and Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway line.

The ornate Victorian shop fronts of Dawson's and the branch of the Enfield Co-operative store, on the right, with their elegant lanterns, are in contrast to the stern brick frontages across the

prominent 16th-century mine-owner whose family continued in business as builders well into the 20th century, Yelverton was a spot of little note until, in 1887, it became the junction for the Princetown branch

The branch line from Wadebridge runs along the southern shore of the estuary; the first train ran on 23 March 1899.

In this view of the seafront just west of the harbour, a lone wagon stands on the siding from the Aberdovey Harbour branch line.

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

The ferry boats, one of which could take a horse and cart, were rowed across to Malpas Passage, a narrow peninsula at the confluence of the Tresillian and Truro Rivers, both long branches of the Fal estuary

Once known as Vicar's Lane and then Little Alice Lane, the street branches off to Minster Yard, where the Theatre Royal opened in 1730 - it was the first theatre in York.

Near the dogleg bend in the road is the local branch of the International Stores grocery chain, and also the Red Lion pub with its hanging sign.

The Caribou Hotel overlooks the basin and locks, which connect the Lancaster Branch Canal with the sea.

Tiverton was actually a branch from the main line.

Victoria Grove branches off between the trees (right).

The remoteness of this area led to its being chosen as the location for the branch of the Royal Observatory responsible for carrying out magnetic observations.

By the beginning of the 20th century the national retail chains were opening branches along what was considered one of the finest streets for shopping in England.

Restaurants included a branch of Ferguson & Forrester, the Royal British, and Littlejohn's.

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.

Next door is the National Provincial Bank branch, with the tailoring and foot- wear stores of Barnes further along the parade of shops.

The main shop in the town is the one beyond the parked cars - then a branch of the Co-op, it is now a combined store and post office.

Members of the Watts family ran the shop for a century: the Misses Watts, from Higher Holt, were followed by William Watts and his branch of the family.

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 way from St Clement to the Tresillian River, a branch of the Truro River estuary, lies to the right of the cottage.

The Edwardian guidebook writer Francis Bickley described Kilmington thus: 'its branching streets, its old cottages with their bright gardens, the clear waters of its streamlet, all these go to the making