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This more distant view also shows the columned enclosure that surrounded the 'squashed onion' domed central bandstand which provided an upper gallery of seating, all set on a projection onto the beach

The unmade road leads from the village to the beach. The sand-dunes are covered with marram grass, which helps knit them together and prevent erosion on this windy coast.

Bathing machines were still very popular at Bognor in 1890 - it was not until the Edwardian era that people changed and swam from the beach.

This is a fine view of the 'lost beach' of Gorleston, so named because after years of erosion it has been reduced to a fraction of the size we see here.

Heacham has the distinctive flat beach of this part of the West Norfolk coast.

With the railway came tourism, first with beach huts, then chalets, and, in the 1950s, caravan sites.

One of the few places on the north coast with access to a fine sandy beach and increasingly popular with surfers, Porthtowan is seen here in its early years of development and is hardly recognisable today

At the beginning of the last millennium, marauding Danes landed on these sandy Devon beaches and put the village of Exmouth to fire and sword.

Anstey's Cove, with Redgate Beach hidden on the left, was a favourite bathing spot for Agatha Christie, who was born in Torquay in 1890.

Hence Rhyl has become noted for the number of children that visit it, and these little ones find an inexhaustible fund of pleasure on its beach. The iron pier was built in 1867.

Once a sleepy Devon backwater, Croyde's beach and bay was discovered by holidaymakers in the 19th century. With two huge caravan parks, this area fills up dramatically in the short summer season.

Posed on Goscar Rock on Tenby's North Beach, these women were paid for their work as models.

There are swings on the beach (extreme left of picture) and tea, refreshments and hot water can be obtained from the café by the roadside.

Traditionally in the ownership of wealthy occupants, the private steps leading down to the beach still belong to these houses, except those on the extreme left.

The groynes on the beach indicate the ferocious tidal currents; in 1931 these currents seriously undermined a row of cottages up the road on the seaward side, that were subsequently

The ice cream shop on the corner is also stocked with plastic beach balls and even a paddling pool.

Then building began in earnest as visitors flocked to enjoy its safe, sandy beach and bracing cliff-top walks. The new town is gathered around an expansive green.

It can be appreciated from this photograph how the bleak area of beach and pools resulted from the infilling of the bay by silt and sand from the china clay industry; the old cliff line

The children are bare-footed, not just because they are on the beach; boots were worn only on Sundays.

Two routes are to be seen in the background leading to the beach. To the right, the private steps (now lost) from the Manor Hotel led to their own promenade.

A family walk down Magazine Lane Slipway onto the beach. This is close to the site of the magazines: ships entering the Mersey had to deposit any gunpowder there during their stay in port.

A row of small fishing boats is drawn up on the beach; they were used to gather shrimps and lobsters. A lifeboat station (left background) was at the ready to cope with any rescue missions at sea.

A hugely expansive beach here means that it never fills up with holidaymakers in this popular resort and former fishing and trading port.

Prior to that it had been little more than a settlement of fishing cottages down by the beach, below the village of Broadwater.