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At low tide Porth Beach becomes a sandy inlet on the east side of Newquay, but here the tide is in, with Porth Island and Trevelgue Head seen across the water.

Few people can now remember how crowded the beach became on a warm summer day - the scenes here were comparable with Blackpool Beach.

The people flocked back to the beach after wartime defences had been cleared. The Royal Engineers warned that dangers remained but town traders eagerly declared the town safe.

Bathing tents dot the beach at Viking Bay, while two bathing machines stand at the water's edge.

By this date, Perranporth was becoming popular for bathing on account of its sandy beach. Pilchard fishing was also carried on, and a few boats are drawn up on the beach.

The Beach c1955 Totland Bay is a good starting point for a long coastal ramble past The Needles to Alum Bay - some of the most dramatic coastal scenery in England.

Southsea's long shingle beach crowded with trippers. Not surprisingly, everyone in the picture is fully dressed.

While a group of children on the beach greet the photographer, others visit the sweet shop (left), whilst a group wait with suitcases to be collected at the end of their holiday (centre).

Most of the coastal trading vessels working out of Padstow were schooners or ketches, and many earned their keep beach trading.

Pwllheli possesses perhaps the finest sandy beach in Wales; and there can be no doubt it will become one of the most attractive seaside places in the kingdom.

This is the longest beach in Pembrokeshire (two miles end to end), lying below a shingle storm ridge.

Unlike many Norfolk beaches, which allowed the erection of permanent wooden beach huts, Gorleston offered a few temporary huts for weekly hire and a 'village' of square tents.

Almost at the end of the Lleyn Peninsula, this small village opens out onto the beach and Cardigan Bay. Here the few visitors that could make their way here enjoy a lazy day on the beach.

At the turn of the century, Felixstowe was at the height of its popularity as a seaside resort, with its south-facing beach.

It also had nearby coal-pits, which sent out some of their produce from the beach here.

Only a mile from a pleasant and unspoilt beach, the area attracted holiday- makers, and the occupiers of Townsend House helped satisfy their needs by offering meals and accommodation.

The most popular and fashionable part of the promenade is that known as the Green Beach.

For many years hoards of revellers would descend on the beach from Cardiff via cheap ferry trips.

Recovering nicely after the 1953 floods, new huts on the promenade replace the old ones which stood on the beach and were smashed up in the storm along with the original Beach Cafe.

Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey.

The beach huts show that this was and still is a popular beach. Most of the larger houses have been converted to hotels to cater for the hundreds of tourists that arrive every summer.

This view looks south from one of the two lookout towers on the beach.

Rhyl is famous for its great windy expanse of beach facing Liverpool Bay.

The pebbly storm beach gives way to a vast fine sandy beach, covered in this photograph by a high tide.