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Outside the hall, Nicholas Sotherton's traceried bay window is flanked by Francis Cock's staircase bay of a century later.

This is Main Bay, which changed its name to Viking Bay following the arrival in 1949 of a replica Viking ship, the Hugin.

Towards the end of Queen Victoria's reign, Ladram Bay had become a popular destination for trippers, who would arrive by boat from neighbouring resorts.

This view looks across the bay, with the chalk height of Beer Head in the far distance.

Totland Bay is the westernmost inhabited bay on the Isle of Wight, with views up the English Channel to Bournemouth and the Dorset coast.

Here we see Swansea Bay Station and the Slip.

Just over a mile separates this popular sandy bay from St Ives.

Here we have a closer view of the wall and walk built from the cliff opposite, encompassing the ground later laid out as gardens, and earlier as a swimming pool, by the Pegwell Bay Reclamation

Victorian entrepreneurs sought to transform little West Bay into a major resort, but they did not succeed, probably because of the considerable competition from neighbouring watering places.

The central bays of the promenade building survive, but the arched bays on each side were rebuilt in the 1950s.

Colwell Bay, just west of Yarmouth, has a good mile of sand sheltered by the low cliffs behind.

The sweep of Lyme Bay and the attractions of the Exe estuary had made Exmouth a favoured resort for those who wanted to take to the water for a small voyage.

It is some twenty years on from photograph number 44810, and West Bay has changed little.

The chalk cliffs of the coast at Broadstairs show superbly in this late Victorian view, looking across Louisa Bay and Viking Bay towards the harbour, in the days before any coastal protection work

It is low tide in this view looking towards the slipway and the Bay Hotel.

West Bay has now become the setting for a popular television series, 'Harbour Lights', which has brought many more tourists to the village.

We are looking over Weston Bay and the sands from near the Grand Pier; beyond we can see (from left to right) Knightstone Harbour, Glentworth Bay and Birnbeck and Knightstone Roads, with the spire of Holy

The Working Men's Club Union Convalescent Home at Pegwell Bay had a Mrs M E Boyland as superintendent, and B T Hall as secretary.

Two miles west of Margate, Westgate on Sea has two bays; sea walls built along the curves of the bays form two promenades with steps down to the beach, and gardens are laid out for the benefit of visitors

Outside the hall, Nicholas Sotherton's traceried bay window is flanked by Francis Cock's staircase bay of a century later.

This general view looks west over the bay towards the town.

Looking down the steep Main Street of Robin Hood's Bay, across the pantiled roofs of the picturesque village to the sweeping curve of the bay and the headland of Old Peak or South Cheek in the background

The Cliffe Hotel was a very popular hotel in Victorian days.

This view shows the headland that separates the two bays. The