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A typically busy picture of Dawlish beach. The rich variety of reds in the sandstone cliff are a delight to the eye.

Here the minstrels seem to be collecting money from the crowd standing on the beach waiting for the show to begin.

A number of beach huts and sales stalls served holidaymakers on Exmouth's sands in the heady days before the Second World War. Here we see a refreshment hut and a kiosk selling film.

A typically busy picture of Dawlish beach. The rich variety of reds in the sandstone cliff are a delight to the eye.

Plymouth never quite achieved the status of being a major seaside resort, though tourists have always bathed from its beaches and promenaded across the famous Hoe.

On the beach sandcastles are built, and happy families enjoy the carefree

Cattle can be seen resting on the beach.

Changing times - instead of a schooner on the beach, there is a fine parade of classic cars - but look carefully and the old telephone box is still there.

A small party is enjoying a game of tennis on the rocky beach. Despite the warm weather they are sweltering under their many layers of heavy clothing.

The main street is still peaceful in character, and the many visitors would have been crowded onto the red pebble beach at the far end.

Inevitably, the major change has come from traffic and its management, with an extra lane of carriageway (centre) having been purloined from the beach.

One longer tunnel is said to have run down to the beach.

A memorial to him can be found just above the beach.

The white building close to the beach is the Rashleigh Arms; just to the right is a short slipway up to the old lifeboat house, which was used until 1922 but is now converted to a café and shop.

The beach was the centre of fun and frivolity. The flags are flying and a throng of holidaymakers waits to board a fleet of row boats for a trip along the coast.

The Harbour, or Sands, station dominated Ramsgate beach from the time it was constructed.

The beach was the centre of fun and frivolity. The flags are flying and a throng of holidaymakers waits to board a fleet of row boats for a trip along the coast.

You could get a week's holiday 'all in' for £8 15s around the time of this photograph, and full entertainment was included right next to the beach by the owner, Billy Butlin.

These trim houses with their first-floor verandas overlooking the shingle beach and breakwaters, and the neat gardens behind their fences, present an almost idyllic seaside vista.

This is the seaward end of the High Street, which runs down onto the beach. In an earlier period this area included beautiful sheltered gardens and a bandstand.

In the distance Crabbe Street, named after the local poet the Rev George Crabbe, who inspired the work of Benjamin Britten, leads down to the beach and the lifeboat station.

This waterfall terminates the course of a stream that crashes onto St Audries' beach from the cliffs: such picturesque natural phenomena were popular with Frith photographers.

Exmouth's long sea front and sandy beaches made sea-bathing a popular recreation from the town's earliest days as a resort. Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities.

This view is taken from Saunton Down over the popular holiday beach at Croyde. In the field below, the wheat is harvested and placed in stooks to dry. This was before combine harvesters were used.