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In the later view (I6501), smart cars line up at the same time as the Beeching axe is being sharpened.

From the bottom of Valley Road the camera captures a crowded South Beach scene, and a bay full of sail-driven fishing boats.

Here you can see the wide range of entertainment on offer on the beach. On the left, the tea tent was run by the Castle Coffee House, based in Castle Street.

Shoeburyness East Beach Tent Site

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.

Chesil Beach is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.

The beach may have been home to bathing machines by day, but at night there were other things going on - in 1853 a raid by customs men revealed 153 casks of smuggled rum and brandy.

In this early view of the beach, there are already signs of local businesses capitalising on the new influx of visitors, with terraces of newly-built lodging houses and cheap hotels.

The Eastern Telegraph Co's large cable station was established in the valley just inland from the beach at Porthcurno, where undersea cables came ashore.

The workmen's outings and beanfeast parties now patronise the seafront public houses and the amusement arcades instead of congregating on the beach.