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A large crowd is gathered on the beach in the centre of this photograph, possibly to watch 'Uncle Mac and his Minstrels.'

The Pavilion remains today an important venue for plays and concerts, surrounded by lovely gardens and with the beach and sea just across the road.

Possibly the last knotted hankie to be seen on an English beach.

On this southern arm of the Haven, Angle Bay boasts fine views right across the Milford Haven. There are several beached boats, the first complete with tender.

Back Beach was the fiefdom of William Curtis & Sons, boatmen and fish merchants from nearby Long Entry on Church Cliffs. The spot was locally known as Curtis Cove.

Donkey rides, beach chairs, heavy clothes - these are the delights of a British seaside day out!

Coney Beach funfair was built in 1920 on an old ballast tip. The first ride was a figure-of-eight ride, housed in two World War I hangers.

Rowing boats are drawn up on the small shingle beach on the west side of Charlestown harbour, with the Polmear Island rock behind.

Children with hoops play on the clifftop promenade, a breezy spot high above the beach. The octagonal building is a newspaper kiosk. Today, the east promenade overlooks the new Ramsgate Port.

This picture shows the junction of High Street and Crane Street.

A view of one of the beaches which look out over Galway Bay to County Clare and the limestone landscape of the Burren.

The beach below White Cliff has long been one of Seaton's favoured bathing places, recommended in many guidebooks, though a charge of 4d was made during the earlier decades of the last

This is the westerly end of Lydstep Cavern Beach; here we see the aptly named Saddle Back and Saddle Point, with the cave and fissures worn into the vertical strata of limestone.

This is a busy scene, with thousands of holidaymakers on the beach. The western shelter has now been completed, and work on the finishing of the promenade and the eastern shelter is under way.

This is the first beach around the corner from the main breakwater of Par Harbour. Steps cut into the rock lead down the cliff from Spit Point.

Long shadows indicate the end of a pleasurable day's sailing from this well-known beach.

The safe beaches and plentiful accommodation ensured Sandown's popularity as a family resort throughout the 20th century.

Summers days on the beach, sand castles, swimming in the sea ... all timeless British preoccupations ... and fine views across the Milford Haven.

Overdressed holidaymakers in sun hats enjoy the sands in this view from Great Western Beach towards the Atlantic Hotel on the headland of the Beacon.

There was a scheme to extend the tramway all the way to Preston via Freckleton. The only section to be built was a 1,100-yard single line from the terminus at Lytham to East Beach.

A solitary child enjoys the beach while a group of men stand in front of the Cod and Lobster Inn, looking on.

Abbotsbury has one of the loveliest settings on the Dorset coast at the western end of the long pebbled Chesil Beach. Inland are the rolling downlands of west Dorset.

Aldeburgh lifeboats have always been launched straight from the shingle beach. Four years earlier, an Aldeburgh lifeboat suffered its worst disaster, capsizing with the loss of seven lives.

This picture shifts the scene down to the beach; we are looking east to the castle and the chalk cliffs.