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This seaside resort on the Cardigan Bay coast shelters behind its sand dunes and wide sandy beach.

Beyond the Bay Private Hotel and Madeira Cottages (left centre) are Hardown Hill, Stonebarrow Hill (centre) and Golden Cap (right).

On the right are the buildings of the Community of St Denys, now part of Warminster School.

Although called Wyre View, the outlook is across Morecambe Bay to the Lake District.

Looking out onto Christchurch Bay, Mudeford remains the centre of the fishing industry in the area.

Almost ruinous when acquired by the National Trust as its first building in 1896, the clergy house was carefully restored.

This Battenhall street is typical of late Victorian/Edwardian housing intended for the 'lower middle classes'.

This shows the view from the Cobb hamlet to the original eastern cube-like core of the Bay Private Hotel (centre).

The Village 1959 At the west end of the village, at the junction of Gainsborough Road with the A30, is this former school of the 1880s, built in rock-faced rubble stone and ashlar dressings.

Away from the bright lights and entertainments of its main resorts, Lancashire's coast has many other fine stretches of expansive beach.

This photograph shows Marine Parade and its beach- tents, between Langmoor Gardens (top left) and the 1922-built Bay Private Hotel (centre).

Happy Valley was described as one of the best public parks or 'leisure grounds' in Britain, and was presented to the town by Lord Mostyn.

The cottages and buildings along the beach belong to the earliest settlement, while the later Victorian developments are strung out along the higher ground.

We are looking further right again from the scene in No 79875 opposite.

One of the boats on the right has the mark PZ, so she may have come from Penzance, a very long journey!

This view looks across the Bay to The Island from the well-named Man's Head Rock on the headland of Carrick Du.

Safe bathing brought thousands of early visitors to Shanklin, as we can see from the profusion of bathing huts and tents.

In the background are two liquid china clay storage tanks.

Thurlestone takes its name from a holed, or thirled, rock just out at sea in Bigbury Bay, which was mentioned in a Saxon charter way back in 845.

The post office, now Swan Cottage, displayed advertisements for Walls ice cream and Bird's Eye frozen foods.

Prior to the development of the coastal resort at Colwyn Bay in Victorian times, the old village, lying to the east and just inland from the coast, was known merely as Colwyn.

The triple gables of the early 17th-century house form the centrepiece, with flanking wings.

Exmouth has no pier in the traditional sense of the word, but this landing stage served as an embarkation point for tourists wishing to take to the water.

This is now the Butley Oysterage, and the bay window has been removed.