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The square was a large parade ground, and nearby Addington Street was a military camp. Frith's photographer was standing outside No 6 Royal Road, where Vincent Van Gogh had stayed.

Amongst the attractions on offer was nightly entertainment in the camp's licensed clubhouse.

In the late 1940s and early 50s caravan and camping sites saw the village embrace the holiday trade with an amusement arcade and new shops like Sea View Café, which were conveniently sited

Today, behind the tents and huts to the right there is a massice holiday camp development.

Rumour has it that the Romans did not camp here at all, and that the mounds are medieval workings.

The camp was recommended by Lord Baden Powell in 1911, and since then, thousands of 'squaddies' have passed through. This is a view of the Games Room in the Sandes Soldiers' Home.

The War Office purchased over 1,600 acres of land here in 1863, and by 1903 camps had been constructed for troops returning from the Boer War.

In the early 17th century it came into the possession of the Sandys family.

French soldiers were held as prisoners at Odiham during the Napoleonic wars, living in a camp dug out of an old chalk pit on the Alton road.

The main camp road ran directly on to this beach.

This pretty house sits back away from the road, and is the Warden's house for the Girl Guides Camping Ground.

Now there are modern holiday camps here, including Cayton Bay and Killerby Old Hall estate, which has a wildlife lake.

Holiday chalets were an important part of the holiday scene when this view of a camp on the north bay was taken.

This was an important 56-acre camping ground for the Guide and Brownie groups in East London, as this part of the countryside was easily reached by train, especially with electrification

During the First World War, St Mildred's Bay was taken over as a Royal Naval Air Service Station, with a tented camp set up on the grassy promenade.

Some of the visitors who enjoyed a stroll through the village streets came from the nearby Morecambe Bay Holiday Camp.

The post box and telephone box must have been well used by residents at the camp. The Shoeburyness School of Gunnery was founded in the middle years of the 19th century.

Its size indicates the relative wealth of this small country town well into the 20th century - its fortunes boosted by the presence of adjacent military camps.

Shoebury, a garrison town to the east of Southend-on-Sea, attracted many holidaymakers who enjoyed camping.

This photograph shows camping and caravan holidays 1950s-style, both a holidaymaker's paradise beside the sea and a planner's nightmare.

Many of the people enjoying the sands below Heysham Head would be staying at the nearby holiday camp, which offered an 'all-in' break, with meals and nightly dancing or variety shows included.

Known today for the nearby open prison situated on an old RAF camp, Eastchurch's claim to fame in earlier days was that it was the site of the first British airfield.

The camp was recommended by Lord Baden Powell in 1911, and since then, thousands of soldiers, like these seen on marching drill at Kemmel Lines, have passed through.

The War Office purchased over 1600 acres of land here in 1863, and by 1903 camps had been constructed for troops returning from the Boer War.