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In this picture we can see local branches of Timsons, Alexander, Burtons, and Boots.

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. The shoes were made just round the corner in Market Street until the 1930s.

This road was cut into High Street to give access to Chesham's terminus station on the Metropolitan Railway branch opened in 1889.

In 1959 Foster's moved to new premises in Great Square, and the building became the Braintree branch of the Midland Bank.

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

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.

In 1959 Foster's moved to new premises in Great Square, and the building became the Braintree branch of the Midland Bank.

Shingle was still being removed from the wide shingle beach (bottom left), and the branch line had been extended to the seaside at West Bay Station (centre right).

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.

It was served by a branch line of the Highland Railway from Fodderty Junction. Are these girls laundresses at one of the hotels?

Sleaford is built on the banks of the River Slea which splits into two branches no more than streams in size.

The old Victorian drinking fountain with its ornate lamps stands isolated in the middle of the intersection, while on the right are branches of the International Stores and the National and Provincial

Further up the High Street are local branches of Hepworth's tailoring and Timothy White's the chemists.

It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy and Willis had their branch. Coal mining was a major employer: Doncaster was ringed with pit villages.

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.

'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 Malmesbury Branch Railway line is situated to the east of the river - the GWR eventually opened this line, which was linked to the Dauntsey Railway, in December 1877.

On the left of the picture is the new building housing the local branches of the stationers and newsagents W H Smith & Son (still there today), Boots the Chemists and Teekoff, the tea and coffee merchants

Station Street turns east from the High Street, and once led to the railway station on the branch line from Gainsborough to Doncaster, closed since the 1960s.

both sides of the road tend to detract from the architectural riches of the fine Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buildings that adorn this spacious street; they are evidence of Faversham's hey-day as a branch

The arrival of the Metropolitan Railway branch stimulated much of this growth and Stanley Avenue is typical of the latter, a tree-lined street of semi-detached suburban villas of the turn of the century