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The beach is one of the nearest to Cardiff and was very popular with parents and young chiuldren and those who thought Penarth too commercialised.

Holiday-makers are scattered across the sands in this evocative picture.

Holiday-makers are scattered across the sands in this evocative picture.

Holidaymakers enjoy themselves on Margate Beach. Note the prams in the centre of the picture, and that virtually everyone seems to be fully clothed and wearing a hat of some sort.

This is now Coral Beach, with made-up roads and caravans that look more like mobile homes.

This is now Coral Beach, with made-up roads and caravans that look more like mobile homes.

This view shows Eype in the days before it was invaded by caravans and too many vehicles, though, as can be seen by the parked cars, some people had already discovered the delights of the beach at Eype

The wide, low-lying, sandy beach here was formed by structural faults.

The fishing off Sandgate was very good, with catches of plaice, codling, conger, and pouting the most common.

Industry and leisure mix in this beach scene. In the foreground are Thames barges with their characteristic lee-boards - a form of offset keel which can be raised in shallow waters.

Mevagissey's steep, winding streets and alleys, cobbled with beach stone, formed a useful maze in which smugglers could escape the attentions of the revenue men.

Courtenay Terrace is the only group of houses which had gardens backing onto the beach.

This road still exists and leads to Porthmeor Beach and to today's St Ives Tate Gallery.

Boats are drawn up on the beach under the walls of the fishing township, and their nets are drying on the rails beside the slipways.

The Houses of Parliament, rebuilt after a fire in 1834, were completed in 1860. The new buildiing was built into the river over the beach.

Early visitors faced a long climb to Babbacombe after a day on the beaches, but in the 1920s a cliff railway - still in use today - was built, making the journey much easier.

Such is the unbroken nature of the West Dorset coastline that artificial harbours had to be constructed at Lyme Regis and West Bay.

Paignton's beaches and coves give a combined sea-frontage of over two miles; this led to the growth of the town's satellite villages of Preston and Goodrington.

Mothers and children paddle in the sandy pools of Towan Beach. On Tolcarne Headland in the background is the Great Western Hotel.

Fishing boats, still all sailing craft at this date, are moored in the shelter of the two piers.

Shaldon remains an unspoiled regency fishing village on the Torquay side of the Teign estuary. A long bridge and foot-ferry lead across to neighbouring Teignmouth.

This is a similar view to 53941 (previous page), taken a little further in to the 20th century; however, not a great deal has changed apart from the fashions.

In 1688, the first recorded curing of red herrings took place here. Here we can see the pebble beach.

Something really fascinates a crowd of very curious beach-goers - not just a landing of fish. We will never know what it was!