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The main shop in the town is the one beyond the parked cars - then a branch of the Co-op, it is now a combined store and post office.

Members of the Watts family ran the shop for a century: the Misses Watts, from Higher Holt, were followed by William Watts and his branch of the family.

As retailers of pianos, organs and gramophones they faced stiff competition from their rivals Thompson & Shackell whose two Cardiff branches underpinned their dominance of the South Wales

It had long since replaced the Old Road which branched off left behind the photographer and forded the river at one point.

The London and South West Railway passed near here in 1860; but Talaton would have remained some distance from a station, had not the Sidmouth branch been built in the 1870s.

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.

More recently it housed a branch of Lloyds Bank, who gave the building to the city in 1927. Today it is a most delightful museum.

Her aim was the instruction of women in various branches of agriculture. Financial problems eventually forced its closure, and British Leyland bought it to use as a marketing centre.

Boasting branches in London, Leeds, Harrogate and Sunderland, Taylor's claimed they were 'known everywhere' for providing 'the public with pure drugs'.

On the right is a branch of International Stores who had larger premises in South Street. So too did W Muskett the grocers and confectioners whose delivery cart is on the left.

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

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.

Hooley's 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

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 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

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.

On the right is a branch of International Stores who had larger premises in South Street. So too did W Muskett the grocers and confectioners whose delivery cart is on the left.

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.

The High Street branches left at the junction. It is unusual in being mainly residential, with commercial development centred on Bridgnorth Road.

On the left is Tinley's shoe shop and just beyond that, though hidden from view, was the local branch of Redgates. On the right the King's Head has changed from Brampton Ales to Warwicks.

Today the nearest branch of Lloyds TSB is in nearby Oakmount Road. In 1931 the population here was just over 3,000; now it is 20,000.

The High Street branches left at the junction. It is unusual in being mainly residential, with commercial development centred on Bridgnorth Road.

Boasting branches in London, Leeds, Harrogate and Sunderland, Taylor's claimed they were 'known everywhere' for providing 'the public with pure drugs'.