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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.

This is the seaward end of the High Street, which runs down onto the beach. In an earlier period this area included beautiful sheltered gardens and a bandstand.

Remove the old car, and the perfect little village of Treen would look exactly the same today.

Royal Terrace with the Royal Hotel on the eastern corner can clearly be seen at the top of the cliffs. Boats are drawn up on the beach close to the promenade.

Royal Terrace with the Royal Hotel on the eastern corner can clearly be seen at the top of the cliffs. Boats are drawn up on the beach close to the promenade.

Mount Pleasant Inn still stands above the marshlands of Dawlish Warren, though it has changed somewhat since this photograph was taken.

This picturesque locality has always attracted the eye of artist and photographer. One Victorian guide book writer described Beer as 'a rare subject for the pencil'.

The white building close to the beach is the Rashleigh Arms; just to the right is a short slipway up to the old lifeboat house, which was used until 1922 but is now converted to a café and shop.

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.

Chesil Beach forms an unbroken line of shingle from Portland to Abbotsbury; its stones are larger to the east than to the west. It has long been a hazard to shipping in bad weather.

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.

One reason for Bournemouth’s success as a holiday resort has been that the shops are available if the weather is too wet and windy for the beach.

Local fisherman work on their boat; the large piece of material on the beach is probably the sail.

Poorly compacted, and composed of glacial drift, the cliffs of the north Norfolk coast have been compared to 'dirty tallow', being unstable and liable to erosion.

From Castle Hill we look down on the Esplanade, with the Beach Hotel in the middle distance.

The coastline on either side of Sandown was heavily fortified in earlier times, for fear of a French invasion was never far from English minds over several centuries.

The fishing village of Runswick Bay is set on a sheer cliff. It is also one of the most attractive harbourless villages along the Yorkshire coast.

The sprawling seaside bungalowdom of Camber - the holiday village, camp and caravan site with associated amuse- ment arcades that have grown from the glorious expanse of Camber sands, where the tide

Victorian modesty is evident, with ankle-length dresses being worn at the height of summer.

Beyond the marina and Marina Road was Golden Sands. Here in 1913/14 Ramsgate Corporation added steps to the sands and built Ramsgate Bathing Station.

This is a closer view of the southern end of the High Street.

The Promenade c1955 The coastline on either side of Sandown was heavily fortified in earlier times, for fear of a French invasion was never far from English minds over several centu- ries.

It is believed that there was once a Saxon settlement nearby that now lies beneath the sea. It was probably destroyed during the 12th or 13th century, when the coastal weather was particularly bad.

Most of the men gathered here on the beach are not fishermen - their bowler hats and shooting sticks suggest they are far more well-to-do.