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In this photograph, the posters on the front of the building tell us that this week we will be entertained by Ernie Myers, Lily Lonsdale, Fred Carey, Los Gopanos, Blanche Gerard and Marie Reeves; admission

Over on the left is a branch of the Home & Colonial Stores, which, like Freeman, Hardy & Willis, was one of the early high street chains.

When the Chilean ironclad 'Blanco Encalada' was attacked and sunk by two small boats armed with primitive torpedoes, the world's navies began at last to take the torpedo seriously.

To the left of the Town Hall is the local branch of the National Provincial Bank, while to the right The Central Pharmacy is still a chemists, but under the name of Cherrington.

The High Street sports a branch of F W Woolworth, and the local branch of the National Provincial Bank is housed in half-timbered style premises.

The station, on the branch line from Sutton to Epsom Downs, opened in 1865, and the white stuccoed house, now a builder's offices, dates from around the same time.

The railway cuts a swathe through Halifax, yet given the town's importance, there was a sense of outrage when the Manchester & Leeds Railway bypassed the town with no connecting branch line built.

The railway cuts a swathe through Halifax, yet given the town's importance, there was a sense of outrage when the Manchester & Leeds Railway bypassed the town with no connecting branch line built.

The supermarket is a branch of Tesco. Founded in London in the 1920s, Tesco is now one of the three top retailers in the world, with 1,878 branches in the United Kingdom alone.

Tilford is situated where the south branch of the River Wey meets the main River Wey, each branch crossed by a medieval bridge.

Directly ahead is the town branch of Barclays Bank.

The late Norman tower of Oxford Castle overlooks a branch of the river which cuts between various small factories and dilapidated buildings.

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

Some of Ramsgate's best hotels, such as The Casa Blanca and The Glanville, were on Victoria Parade, and they offered the guests the opportunity to walk out of the hotel and promenade along the Parade

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.

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.

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.