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This small landing bay off the Thames estuary near the Isle of Grain is popular with fishermen and amateur sailors.

The four-storey Sundial Cottage (left), and Library Cottage next door are shown before the building of the Bay Private Hotel.

The photographer is looking east towards Poole Head, at the end of the long high cliff of Poole Bay which includes Bournemouth.

This row of diminutive, white cottages provided accommodation for the Coastguards maintaining a watch along this busy stretch of the Kent coastline with its treacherous offshore sandbanks.

The church has been much re-built and re-designed over the years.

On this sunny early afternoon Di Palma Cream Ices and Johnny's Creamy Ices compete for trade (centre), and people sit in the rose garden formed next to Trinity Church after the iron railings

It was the early use of bathing machines that made Weymouth such a popular resort for sea bathing.The larger machines ran down into the water on rails and consisted of a number of cubicles.

Reighton is a small resort on Filey Bay, and Reighton Sands are justly famous for their bathing.

Pegwell Bay houses the replica Viking dragon-headed longship which was rowed and sailed from Denmark to Broadstairs to celebrate the 1500th anniversary of the landing of Hengist and Horsa; it arrived

Between Whitstable and Herne Bay, this modern residential suburb and resort, with its grassy cliff-top promenade and shingle beach, was developed mainly in the years following the Second World War.

We now embark on a tour of the Moors or Levels, the vast flat lands of central Somerset, where great drains and canalised rivers keep the marshes at bay. We

The area at the top of Staithes is known as Bank Top and here, in 1929, we see two recently- completed bay-fronted detached bungalows (right of view) which have been carefully positioned to take full

In the last years of the 19th century Marconi set up an early wireless transmitting station near to Totland Bay, exchanging radio signals with a steamer out at sea.

This shows the first of the plague of holiday chalets which swept along the cliffside before planning regulations prevented their building.

The Old House (left) dates from 1678, and it is a prominently sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.

The coloured cliffs of Alum Bay are one of the most enduring sights on the Isle of Wight as far as visitors are concerned.

Part of the 'Cliftonville' area, these smart terraces housed the wealthy colonels, surgeons and Indian Army officers who retired to the seaside here.

To the right of christ church is the Catholic Church of Our Lady of Light.

They were built for the traffic across the bay from Morecambe and Arnside; the last steamer called in 1910.

The single-storey white building was the Coastguard Station, built between 1884 and 1904.

Originally named after its fine view overlooking the jetty, this street retained its name when the pier was built.

Looking out into Christchurch Bay, Mudeford remains the centre of Dorset's small-scale fishing industry, though leisure yachting has dominated from the middle of the 20th century.

To the east of Margate, and south of Foreness Point, Kingsgate Bay is marked by this gap in the cliffs.

This view shows Cei Bach (Little Quay), where a number of boats were built, with the typical Ceredigion coast beyond.