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The rocky cliff faces are scored and pitted by wind and waves, causing sizeable blowing holes and fissures.

The beach is seen at low tide, with dramatic crumbling cliffs towering up behind.

The town and castle sit on a cliff of very soft sandstone.

The bathing tents are obviously busy and have multiplied beneath the cliffs. Meanwhile, promenaders stroll on the clifftop.

The narrow harbour entrance beneath a treacherous cliff was protected from rough seas by a long pier. It is hard to imagine how sailing ships once came in and out of here.

There is just room to draw up a few boats at this remote fishing cove down by the granite cliffs of Gwennap Head at the south-west corner of the Land's End peninsula.

It stands at the top of the low cliffs visible in photograph No 86689.

Hunstanton grew out of the hamlet of Hunstanton St Edmund, sited low on the cliffs and owned by the Le Strange family of the Hall.

This wonderful view shows the East Devon coast from the great cliff of High Peak to distant Exmouth, circling part of the great sweep of Lyme Bay.

However, judging by the parked cars and caravans, the visitors are quite happy just to look at the magnificent view over the cliff top.

Outside the very grand Cliff Hotel, these subjects are all quite clearly posing for the photographer, and not making a very convincing job of it - even those virtually out of shot!

This path has been built over the Cliffs Shelter, seen in the previous picture. On the left are two of the well-known hotels of the time, The Imperial and The Westward Ho!

Note the buildings perched perilously close to the cliff edge. This was an ex-wartime camp containing a searchlight unit and some coastal guns. It is now a caravan park.

Marsden has good sands, and is well known for the grotto on the cliff, which also includes a restaurant and a haunted pub.

The Leas shelter on the left was built in 1894; later a new building replaced the shelter, and in July 1927 the first concert was held in the Leas Cliff Hall.

Just to the left of the photograph is a buttress from All Saints' church, moved here from the cliff edge in 1923.

Village shop and parish church form the heart of this cliff-top village. Walls and houses are built of whole flints.

Here there is a sliver of sea (right of centre) and the plateau of the Golf Links on East Cliff.

Hotels and boarding houses stand right on the cliff edge overlooking the beach and harbour area.

Steps from the Highcliffe (right) descend to the beach at North Swanage, beyond the promenade (upper centre) where the cliffs are skirted by beach huts.

These large houses stand in an idyllic situation on the cliffs above the Channel overlooking St Margaret's Bay.

Southbourne stands above the seven miles of golden beaches that attract the tourist again and again to this part of the coast; a cliff railway facilitates access to the sands.

The place became a favourite with artists and holidaymakers alike; many of its red-roofed cottages were perched somewhat precariously on the cliffs. It is also known as Bay Town.

Branscombe runs down a beautiful little valley ('Brannoc's combe') to a break in the cliffs with a tiny beach.