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Tucked into the foreground, behind a hedge, ran the Bridport branch railway.

Lord Beeching closed this branch line in 1964. Its 22-mile length became a track known as the Test Way, which can now be walked from Andover all the way to Southampton Water.

Set on one of the picturesque creeks branching off the Fowey estuary, Lerryn is seen at its best when the tide is high. At low tide there is nothing but mud in this creek.

It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy & Willis had their branch, and where those who had signed the pledge could find a room at the Albany Temperance Hotel.

Appledore stands on a branch of the River?Rother close by?Romney Marsh. During the 9th century, it was an important Viking base. From here they penetrated far inland on destructive forays.

In the distance can be seen a small shopping centre with a post office at the point where Spring Lane branches off from Riverside.

In the autumn, the overhanging branches form a seemingly never-ending tunnel of gold as the traveller journeys onward.

This impressive building was the Parkstone branch of the Wiltshire and Dorset Bank. The roads around Parkstone are much busier these days, encouraging journeys on foot or using public transport.

Only 30 years later, it has become just another branch of suburbia. Some picturesque cottages were destroyed to widen these roads and create the roundabout, which now dominates the view.

Just coming into the picture at left is the local branch of Lloyds, built around 1910 to the designs of local architect George Reavell.

The part 16th-century Angel Hotel and the Midhurst branch of Barclays Bank are still there, as is the Clock House opposite, which today houses offices.

Spring Hill Corner is an ancient junction where Springhill Lane branches off the Wolverhampton road towards Lower Penn. It runs along the top of a ridge and is prehistoric in origin.

Looking west along the Broadway we see amongst the shops branches of Curry's, the Co-op and W H Smith.

Formerly home to a branch of the Legh family, Swineyard Hall was sold off by Lt Colonel Cornwall Legh in 1919.

In the autumn, the overhanging branches form a seemingly never- ending tunnel of gold as the traveller journeys onward.

The handsome building on the right with the flagpole is the Rothwell branch of the Conservative Club. Next to it is the Chequers Hotel, now a convenience store. The building is dated 1734.

Note the branch of Lloyds Bank on the left, and the Scala cinema on the right next to N Joseph, General Stores.

the ornamental gates and the spring and summer gardens opened in April 1959 by Ernest Jones, president of the National Union of Mine Workers, to commemorate a centenary of the Yorkshire Branch

In the centre background, the traditional building of Lloyds Bank can be seen, and on the extreme left is a branch of Fifty Shilling Tailors.

St Willow's church of Lanteglos-by-Fowey stands surrounded by fields overlooking the head of Pont Pill, a branch of Fowey harbour and about a mile from Polruan.

Approaching from the town centre, we are in front of the terminus of the Great Western Railway branch from Bodmin Road Station, opened in 1887.

The timbered building beyond is a branch of the National Westminster Bank, and the properties beyond that have all been demolished in the interests of building mundane blocks of shops.

The church of St John the Baptist is in the village of Carnaby, which is just over two miles from Bridlington and was on the Scarborough and Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway line.

The Monmouthshire Canal ran from Newport to Pontymoile with a branch to Crumlin, which is what we see illustrated. The fourteen locks at Rogerstone were still in use when this view was taken.