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The large extension at the back of the inn (right) contained seven bedrooms with doors onto the beach.

The beach is seen at low tide, with striking clouds and the sun glinting on the surf.

This was originally built as stabling for the gentry who would trot up the mile of embankment in their carriages to visit Wells beach.

The old boathouse is selling beach balls, lilos, straw hats and so on, but most important from the parents' point of view is that the shop is offering teas and beach trays.

The beach is lined with numerous beach yawls; these did all the fetching and carrying for the cargo-carrying ships which plied the North Sea, as well as competing for lucrative salvage prizes when they

Duporth Beach is just around the corner from Charlestown, and is separated from it by the headland and Polmear Island offshore.

Here we have a wonderfully evocative sign of the times: a beach scene in high summer and not a glimpse of bare ?

It also had nearby coal-pits, which transported some of their coal from the beach here.

Until the 1840s Paignton was a farming village half a mile inland, producing cider and the then famous Paignton cabbage, but it became popular with convalescents and its beach - longer and better than

This view shows Front Beach and Railway Street, now the Strand.

Lying north from Liverpool were continuous golden sandy beaches.

The Beach House Temperance Hotel (to the right in photograph No 44204) is apparent on the left in this view of the broad Esplanade, looking towards the centre of the town.

Note the beach café and swings on the beach and, on the bottom right of the picture the glazed fronted café, designed to take full advantage of the sea views but to protect from the unpredictable

This was a typical holiday scene on the beach in the 1940s: none of the visitors are sunbathing, and the children are not wearing swimming costumes, and yet in the background there are dozens of beach

At this time there was not a lot for the children to do, other than paddle, dig trenches and make castles on the sandy beach.

The beach was where the unlicensed traders set up, and where the cheaper end of the entertainments went on, including the boxing booths and the travellers' fairground.

Chalets, a villa and the Bay View Hotel overlook the Hive and Burton Beach from the end of Beach Road.

A similar gap to the one at West Runton provides reasonable access to the beach.

Shoeburyness East Beach Tent Site

Middle Beach (foreground) at Studland, is overlooked by the 1943-built Fort Henry on Redend Point (right-hand clifftop), which Canadian Engineers named for their home base in Ontario.

A fun fair can be seen in the foreground, and the beach entertains many visitors in this view of old Saltburn, with the Ship Inn just visible over the shoulder of Cat Nab (right).

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

The huts are arranged just above the high tide mark along the length of Par Beach.

This is still a sandy beach on the Solent shore; many beaches in Hampshire are now pebble, possibly due to erosion.