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Swings and donkey rides were available for the children; note the striped bathing huts and (left) a temporary stage for the concert party, Carlton's Cosy Corner, higher up the beach.

A number of people, on the beach by the bathing machines in the distant back ground, enjoy the mirror-calm water.

Shops and a post office overlook the junction in the centre of the village by the railway station. Just along Station Road, on the left by the chemist is the Marine Café.

This pier was without rival in the country. Whit Monday crowds came thick and fast.

The north winds have taken their toll and bent the lamp-posts which illuminate this slope during the evening.

By 1918 Margate Council had become envious of Pettman's monopoly of bathing at Cliftonville and made a charge for the bathing rights and the hiring of deckchairs on the popular Cliftonville beaches

The picturesque coastal town of Eyemouth is situated five miles north of the border where the Eye Water flows into the North Sea.

The man and group of boys in front of the centre ground boat are typical of visitors to any sea shore, and form the kind of scene that has not changed over the years.

This early picture of the beach at Ramsgate shows the benches that were precursors of the modern deck chair and a few bathing machines. Ramsgate Sands Station is in the centre of the picture.

This row of diminutive, white cottages provided accommodation for the Coastguards maintaining a watch along this busy stretch of the Kent coastline with its treacherous offshore sandbanks.

A group of children pose for the photograph.

The pier is seen here in its heyday, complete with its Mikado Concert Hall erected at its head in 1912.

The bowling green is surrounded by beach huts and set amidst suburbia in St Edmund's Road, with Cordy's Regal restaurant, now The Alex, to the right.

To give the patients the benefit of the healthy sea breezes, a convalescent home for women and girls, with a wing for mothers and infants, was built in Nether Avenue in 1902.

Skegness's most famous fairground ride was the Figure Eight, which was regarded as a worthy rival to Coney Island!

Despite the lofty heights surrounding Ilfracombe, the town centre is low- lying and prone to flooding.

Here, looking towards Ingoldmells Point, are the sandy beach and the sand dunes, a view now radically changed by the more recent sea defences with a massive concave-fronted sea wall forming a promenade

Before the advent of cheap, foreign package holidays, Lancashire resorts and beaches continued to draw summer crowds, with donkeys and deckchairs here completing a traditional British scene.

Away from the tourist area of Beach Road the little village of Hemsby remained unspoilt for many years. Still standing without change is St Mary's.

Myrtles and hydrangeas bloom lustily in the open air in this delightful spot. The beach is famous for its prettily-marked pebbles.

The railway reached the fishing hamlet of Sheringham ten years after it reached Cromer, Sheringham's close neighbour.

The journey to Studland Bay was probably the favourite excursion for tourists from Swanage, who could either get there by walking along the cliff tops or by taking a carriage or charabanc along the

Sandsend is just three miles along the sandy beach from Whitby.

This shows both sides of the river. The punt crossed the Thames to a slipway to the right of Dunton's boathouse, and the fare was 1d.