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Kiosks on the beach; donkey rides; parasols; shady hats. All the ingredients for a perfect seaside holiday.

Kiosks on the beach; donkey rides; parasols; shady hats. All the ingredients for a perfect seaside holiday.

The Metropole Hotel was one of the first in Whitby to have electric light; its glowing windows were a landmark for ships.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The stretch of marshland from Winchelsea to Pett is known as Pett Level. This view looks along the shingle beach which fronts the marshland towards Fairlight.

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.

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.

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

Two packed motorboats pass the beach chalets north of the Pier. Later, the chalets were to be rebuilt to face inland, as well as towards the sea.

Another view, this time looking south along the beach towards Carrickfergus. Belfast Lough is on the left, and the hotel and refreshment room are on the right.