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This splendid view shows part of the fishing fleet and a spritsail sailing barge beached in the shallow waters at low tide.
By the last year of Victoria's reign Bournemouth had become an established seaside resort.
Lepe remains an attractive hamlet offering safe bathing in the waters of the Solent.
It was intended to link New Radnor with Old Radnor, two miles distant, to form a major city to be the capital of Radnorshire.
This superb picture shows the magnificent sweep of Nayland Crescent at the western end of town, close to the Royal Sea-Bathing Hospital and the infamous Nayland Rocks.
The Pier 1897 Bathing was permitted from Swanage pier on weekdays from 6-8am and on Sundays from 7-9am.
This picture taken ten years later shows a holiday crowd thronging the sandy beach.
This view of the Heights of Abraham above Matlock Bath shows the Prospect, or Victoria, Tower.
This view of Coney Beach shows ladies wearing long dresses, the men wearing suits and the children fully dressed - there is not a bathing costume in sight.
The well stands in a tranquil spot on Gallows Hill overlooking the valley.
The well stands in a tranquil spot on Gallows Hill overlooking the valley.
This used to be the most genteel of the Yorkshire seaside resorts, a view that is exemplified by the promenading of the nouveau riche in this 1920s photograph.
Once the village smithy, the inn at Godmanstone is said to be the smallest public house in England.
The coastal scenery around Bexhill may not be the most spectacular along the southern coast of England, but it does offer many pleasant walks - beneficial to those who come to the area for
Note the bathing tents on the promenade.
The town eventually got its open-air swimming baths.
The beach below White Cliff has long been one of Seaton's favoured bathing places, recommended in many guidebooks, though a charge of 4d was made during the earlier decades of the last
Slough dates back to the 12th century, when it was a hamlet on the London to Bath road.
This view shows the beach complete with bathing tents.
How quiet Maidenhead High Street seems in this photograph, as the age of the motor car was just dawning.
