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Below, a shingle beach with patches of pea-grit provides a spot for rest and relaxation between Raffey's Ledge and the Mouth Rocks, where the River Char enters the sea.

Ainsdale still allows motor vehicles to park on the beach for a small charge.

Inevitably, the wide street of the Promenade soon became a popular place to park the car, look at the beach and eat an ice cream. It has little changed in that function since.

The North Wall of the harbour (left centre) was still detached from the beach.

Just a decade before, fortified lookouts and pillboxes guarded this scene, and a mass of girders and wires bristled above a mined beach.

In the early days of private aviation, the company's founder Tom Wilson often serviced the string-and-sealing-wax aircraft flown by the pioneers who used Freshfield beach as a landing strip

Note the beach-huts on the landslipped cliff.

Bathing machines can be seen on the beach.

'The sands', says the Frith title, but as you can see, central Morecambe has always had a pebble beach, especially at high tide.

The railway was so busy a century ago that a footbridge was built so that visitors did not have to wait to cross the line to get to the beach.

The historic decorative frontage of the former George Inn, which featured in the flight of King Charles II from the Battle of Worcester, carries the names of Beach the dispensing chemist, and predecessor

Lewes Assizes were popularly referred to as 'The Bungalow Murder', and involved the killing of 37-year-old Emily Kaye at an isolated former customs officer's cottage at The Crumbles, a shingle stretch of beach

The White Swan public house, first mentioned in 1722, stands on raised ground just beyond the beached punts to the left of centre.

Somewhere along this steeply-sloping, shingle beach the armoured legionaries from Julius Caesar's invading army waded ashore in 55BC.

Somewhere along this steeply-sloping, shingle beach the armoured legionaries from Julius Caesar's invading army waded ashore in 55BC.

The Beach Hotel had opened at 4 Marine Parade in 1915, expanding into the whole parade by 1936, when the original red-brick houses that had, in part, comprised The Prince Albert Convalescent Home were

It incorporates turn-of-the- century markets and 1950s beaches.

Some has been used in houses; along North Road and the Quay, large beach cobbles of the same stone have been split and used for building.

When grounded the polacca sat upright; this made it an ideal type of vessel for loading and unloading cargo on beaches at low water.

During the Second World War, when railway use was discouraged and seaside beaches were often designated as military zones, Rugby Council organised a 'Holidays at Home' scheme to entertain local

The workmen's outings and beanfeast parties now patronise the seafront public houses and the amusement arcades instead of congregating on the beach.

AS YOU JOURNEY eastwards from the sedate and literary little town of Lyme Regis towards the sandy beaches and urban sprawl of Bournemouth, you become aware that this beautiful Dorset coast has been

Beyond is Sandy Bay, Littleham's own beach, once a smugglers' cove but now the setting for one of England's largest caravan sites, often echoing with gunfire from the Royal Marines training range

THE golden sands have always been one of Margate's main attractions and have given the resort an advantage over the more common shingle beaches of South-East England.