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The branch of the London Co-op grocery on the right dates back to pre-war days.

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.

It was paralleled 79 years later with the opening of the Wiltshire, Somerset & Weymouth railway line, and its branch line from here to Bridport and West Bay.

Since then it has changed ownership twice, first becoming part of the Lewis Owen Owen group, and then in 1996 a branch of Allders. The top floor was added at a later date.

The parade of shops which lined this section of Upper Mulgrave Road on the approach to the entrance to Cheam Station, which is behind the trees on the left, includes on the extreme right a branch of the

Since then it has changed ownership twice, first becoming part of the Lewis Owen Owen group, and then in 1996 a branch of Allders. The top floor was added at a later date.

Since then it has changed ownership twice, first becoming part of the Lewis Owen Owen group, and then in 1996 a branch of Allders.The top floor was added at a later date.The dome of the town hall

In this High Street view there is a dairy, Preston's Library (where you could borrow a novel to enjoy whilst lounging in your deckchair), and a branch of International Stores, which quickly saw off old-style

Little Chalfont, a name given the area by developers in the 1920s, grew up around Chalfont Road Station on the Metropolitan Line which opened in 1889, with a branch to Chesham opening the following year

Local stores such as Barkhams, Kirschels and Walkers (centre and right) will soon be joined by branches of the major supermarket chains.

The quay at the head of Pont Pill, a branch of the Fowey river off Fowey harbour, could be reached at high tide; it was an important trading place with warehouses and limekilns.

It now houses a branch of Boots, the chemists, and all the plaster on the front façade has been recently removed revealing a beautiful jettied timber building.

There is also a branch of Lloyds Bank, a sign advertising WH Smith circulating library and the impressive clock tower.

The Broadway also has a branch of the National Provincial Bank (third from the right) next to the post office, leading on to a greengrocer`s, an optician`s and a ladies` hairdresser amongst others.

On the left is Home & Colonial, which by this date had several hundred branches. Their pricing policy was aggressive: signs in the window proclaim '2d in the shilling returned'.

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.

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?

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).

On the right is a branch of Hepworths, whose shop sign declares it to be a 'clothiers' rather than the 'tailors' they were later to become. The tower of St Mary's Church overlooks the town.

The scenic St Ives branch railway follows the coast, with a four-arched viaduct crossing the little valley behind the beach; the station platform is just beyond.

The short-lived Aberystwyth and Tregaron bank was established in 1810, and the Black Ox bank (Banc y Eidon Du), based in Llandovery, opened a branch in Tregaron in 1903.