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Here we see a very crowded Ramsgate beach, with the pier in the distance on the right beyond the massed bathing machines.

Here we see one of the famous Lincolnshire beaches with its necessary donkeys.

Here we see the post-1953 sea wall, stepped here to allow access to the beach.

Paddling in streams and pools on the beach was popular in Victorian times.

The beach is for pleasure too, with beach huts and deck chairs, both offered for hire by W Green and Son.

From the bottom of Valley Road the camera captures a crowded South Beach scene, and a bay full of sail-driven fishing boats.

By this time, Felixstowe was at the height of its popularity as a seaside resort, with its south-facing beach.

This view, with well-clad visitors strolling along the beach and sailing boats drawn up on the shore, shows a south coast beach before development and formalisation changed its character.

Here we have a busy scene, with most of those enjoying the beach placing their deckchairs close to the sea wall.

This panoramic view of Porthminster beach and St Ives was taken from near the local coastguard station.

This view shows the beach complete with bathing tents.

Southsea's long shingle beach crowded with trippers.

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

On the right is the path leading to Friars Point from the beach.

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.

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.

This photograph was taken from Gyllyngvase Beach.

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

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

The little sea wall on the beach is topped by a fine selection of winches and windlasses, all essential for hauling boats up the beach and clear of storms.

People from Exeter used the sea and sands, the only good bathing beach in the east, back in the early seventeenth century.

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.