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This crowded beach beautifully illustrates the beach fashions of the 1920s: ladies wear summer dresses with straw hats, while the boys and gentlemen retain flat caps, jackets and trousers (rolled up

The Beach c1960 With room to spare, this looks as though it was an ideal place to learn the basics of driving before tempting the fates on the open road.

Iron railings have now been erected, with a path from the promenade leading to the beach.

Exmouth is reputed to be the oldest seaside town in Devon.

This view shows Carbis Bay when it was still largely undeveloped, with just a scattering of houses above the cliffs overlooking the sandy beach.

As at Clovelly, donkeys were much in use here, ferrying herrings and lime from the kiln (centre) up the hill.

Beside Beach Villa with the Metropole just behind, the new cliff lift was in process of being constructed; it was eventually to make access to and from the beach much simpler.

Close to the point where the cliffs begin to rise from the beach at Southwold is the Sailor's Reading Room.

The narrow Trebarwith valley emerges at the north Cornish coast; here Trebarwith Strand presents a good beach of golden sand, but all vanishes at high tide.

Here you can see the wide range of entertainment on offer on the beach.

The photographer has moved in closer to the beach to take this picture, although still concentrating on the same area as the former one.The Shrubbery Gardens, above the sun shelter, are well used

Chesil Beach is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.The stones tend to be larger at one end of the beach than the other.

In the background are two liquid china clay storage tanks.

This photograph was taken from Gyllyngvase Beach.

The little valley of Trenarren reaches the coast just to the west of Black Head, and the stream cascades over the cliff onto the beach.

The timber-framed Tudor Moot Hall is situated next to the beach.

Wildersmouth Bay was the original bathing beach of the town; those beaches to the west only became accessible after the drafting in of Welsh miners to dig the tunnels by which they are now reached.

Then, as now, the beach was popular with children, who here play at the water's edge whilst older boys admire the moored fishing boat.

Highcliffe was well and truly within the county of Hampshire until the latter half of the 20th century, and it remains close to the Hampshire border.

This is a remarkable view—not least because of the 'kreemy toffee' advertised on the left, showing that incorrect spelling has been used in advertising for many years.