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The beach was the centre of fun and frivolity.

You could get a week's holiday 'all in' for £8 15s around the time of this photograph, and full entertainment was included right next to the beach by the owner, Billy Butlin.

These trim houses with their first-floor verandas overlooking the shingle beach and breakwaters, and the neat gardens behind their fences, present an almost idyllic seaside vista.

This is the seaward end of the High Street, which runs down onto the beach.

In the distance Crabbe Street, named after the local poet the Rev George Crabbe, who inspired the work of Benjamin Britten, leads down to the beach and the lifeboat station.

This waterfall terminates the course of a stream that crashes onto St Audries' beach from the cliffs: such picturesque natural phenomena were popular with Frith photographers.

These superior chalets are on the sand-dunes above the beach; as estates like this are privately-owned, the roads are usually not made up.

The huts beyond show the popularity of this part of the island for bathing; there are pleasant stretches of sand among the shingle of the beach.

West Pentire can be seen beyond the beach.

The small coves between, such as the beach below Burton Bradstock, would be used mostly by local fishermen and smugglers.

Ice cream and tea are for sale further along the beach.

Less than a century after its foundation, the town was already dominating the skyline and its beaches were among the most crowded on the south coast.

Chesil Beach is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.

In the distance, under a mile away, is Ireland's Eye, a small rocky island with an excellent beach and the ruins of the sixth century St Nessan's Abbey.

The beach is still serviced by a cafe, and a passenger ferry crosses to Padstow at suitable tides.

It boasted four tea-rooms just inland from the beach - they are visible on the right fork of the road in this picture.

Tennis courts, a café and beach huts are situated on the sands reclaimed from the sea beneath the cliffs; down them the steep access lane descends to the Riviera Club.

This schooner may well have been unloading limestone, which was shipped from South Wales to be fired in the lime-kiln that still stands at the side of the beach.

writer noted that 'entrance to the Chine is through a bazaar, where one must either make a purchase or pay sixpence before he descends to this great chasm, echoing the ocean waves that break on the beach

More Americans died training here than were killed on Utah Beach on D-Day.

The beach is shingly, but the bathing is safe.

Street furniture is changing with the introduction of the ugly concrete street lamp post outside the timber- framed building that was Beach's bookshop.There is a striking coat of arms high up

On Swanage's mixed bathing beach tents were provided for changing and preserving the modesty of visitors.

writer noted that 'entrance to the Chine is through a bazaar, where one must either make a purchase or pay sixpence before he descends to this great chasm, echoing the ocean waves that break on the beach