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Close to the point where the cliffs begin to rise from the beach at Southwold is the Sailor's Reading Room.

Here you can see the wide range of entertainment on offer on the beach.

The photographer has moved in closer to the beach to take this picture, although still concentrating on the same area as the former one.The Shrubbery Gardens, above the sun shelter, are well used

Chesil Beach is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.The stones tend to be larger at one end of the beach than the other.

In the background are two liquid china clay storage tanks.

The timber-framed Tudor Moot Hall is situated next to the beach.

This photograph was taken from Gyllyngvase Beach.

The little valley of Trenarren reaches the coast just to the west of Black Head, and the stream cascades over the cliff onto the beach.

Wildersmouth Bay was the original bathing beach of the town; those beaches to the west only became accessible after the drafting in of Welsh miners to dig the tunnels by which they are now reached.

Then, as now, the beach was popular with children, who here play at the water's edge whilst older boys admire the moored fishing boat.

This is a remarkable view—not least because of the 'kreemy toffee' advertised on the left, showing that incorrect spelling has been used in advertising for many years.

Highcliffe was well and truly within the county of Hampshire until the latter half of the 20th century, and it remains close to the Hampshire border.

The 'Droch' or Cave of Beauty is regarded as the finest at Lydstep Cavern Beach.

The line of beach-huts makes a striking background to this picture of a father and son sea fishing from the pebbly beach.

This view of East Cliff, with well-clad visitors strolling along the beach, and sailing boats drawn up on the shore, shows a south coast beach before development and formalisation changed its character

During the first quarter of the 20th century Worthing's beach was very popular with visitors and inhabitants alike.

Studland has one of the best and least tampered-with beaches in Dorset - a real reminder of those halcyon days when such luminaries as George III promoted the merits of sea bathing.

Still a popular beach today, particularly with locals, the Pebble Ridge is a long low expanse protecting the entrance to the Taw and Torridge estuary.

Sidmouth's pebbly beach has never deterred sea bathers and paddlers, though building sandcastles was a harder task.

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

Outdoor holidays are being pioneered here, with just a few tents and caravans on the edge of the beach at Sconhoe Farm.

These boats up on the pink shingle beach are probably rowing boats for hire - they were painted red, white and blue.

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.