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To the left, a huge ladder is in place, seemingly to pick the fruit hanging from the branches.

Across the street is a branch of F W Woolworth.

This view shows a deserted village, with the branch of the Derby Co-operative Society (centre) waiting for its first customer of the day.

In medieval times there was a branch of the Knights Hospitallers at Halse. The present-day village has an historic atmosphere; its little church is particularly fine.

Note the young conifers, recently planted in the interest of water purity, which now cloak the artificial lake with their dense canopy of branches.

The castle overlooks a branch of the river where it meanders between run-down buildings and small factories.

There were to be three branches, one of which was Tiverton. This view, at Tidcombe Bridge, shows the canal in a near-derelict state.

Note the Ever Ready delivery van in the centre of the picture and the branch of Hepworths on the right.

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.

Back in the 1950s it would have been quite normal for a bank to have a branch in a small village. Rationalisation has seen a good many of them close down.

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 the local policeman chats to workmen, and the main street looks almost bereft of traffic.

This view of Station Road, by now renamed Station Way, shows that while the local branches of W H Smith and Boots the Chemists still occupy their premises below the flats of Cheam Court, the corner shop

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.

Restaurants included a branch of Ferguson & Forrester, the Royal British, and Littlejohn's. Confectioners included Mackies, and also Ritchies, where shortbread was a speciality.

On the extreme left is J F White's tobacconist's shop next door to the branch of Lloyds Bank, while across the road is the entrance to Cheam Station Approach, with the offices of Morgan, Baines & Clark's