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Tipton St John is on the Sidmouth branch line, which ran from 1874 to 1967.

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.

Tiverton was actually a branch from the main line. Today, you can take a trip on this section aboard a horse-drawn barge from Tiverton.

Victoria Grove branches off between the trees (right). Further down there is a Ford Corsair. Opposite a Ford Anglia is tightly parked (left) between a couple of Morris Minis.

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.

Little trace of the railway remains today (Broadstone Leisure Centre stands on much of it), but this was once a busy junction, where the Bournemouth main branch crossed the London, Southampton

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.

private school, Bramhall Grammar School, the consulting rooms of two physicians and surgeons, a post office, fishmonger and fruiterers, a confectioner, a grocers, a boot maker and cycle dealer, and a branch

These are fairly small lines for use by local fishermen; trawlers, however, would tow a line perhaps half a mile or more in length, which with branches could have as many as 15,000 hooks.

The branch railway from Taunton spurred the resort's growth; the station is now the terminus of the West Somerset Railway, closed in 1971 but reopened in 1976 as a preserved line.

The Sheffield branch of Thomas Cook & Son is dwarfed by its neighbour,Woodhouses.

the north side of the High Street, behind the Mini Traveller stands the Westminster Bank, previously Ellwoods; next door is R & O Hall, newsagents, who later became Buxton`s paper shop and is now a branch

Originally a mere sub-branch of Cardiff's Bute Street, the growing stature of the town is evidenced by the bank's gaining of both 'full' status (c1886) and Bute Street's erstwhile manager, Mr H W Rice!

The Epsom Downs railway line was opened in 1865, and branched south from Sutton station to its first stop, which was Belmont.

On the right the branch of Teekoff Ltd, with its coffee-roasting machine prominent in the near window, would entice customers from the bus stop on the opposite pavement with its fragrant aromas.

A line of trees (left) has had to be pollarded; they were planted long before motorised traffic was thought of, and their branches were a threat to safety.

By mid-summer the signpost on the lamp standard would have been removed under new war-time emergency regulations and, in the face of increasing food rationing, the branch of United Dairies on the left

After the new school was built in 1967, part of this building was used as a branch library for Braunston.

The new mill was built around 1800 to take advantage of the Grand Union Canal's Wendover Arm or branch canal that opened in 1797.

The splendid Westminster Bank building on the corner of Mercers Row, distinguished by its striking dome, is now a branch of Nationwide; the tall, narrow building to the right of it is a jeweller and diamond

Amble became a centre for coal exports, and was served by a branch line of the North Eastern Railway.

Typically, the Lloyds Bank branch has gone.

Also on Queen's Road was the Bristol branch of the Antivivisection Society.

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.