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This small landing bay off the Thames estuary near the Isle of Grain is popular with fishermen and amateur sailors.

The four-storey Sundial Cottage (left), and Library Cottage next door are shown before the building of the Bay Private Hotel.

Reighton is a small resort on Filey Bay, and Reighton Sands are justly famous for their bathing.

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.

The church has been much re-built and re-designed over the years. It was demolished and rebuilt in the 17th century and effectively rebuilt in 1854-5 and again in 1880-1.

Fishing nets hang out to dry along the esplanade of Filey's North Beach, while a 'coble', as the old-fashioned fishing boats are called, waits above on the left.

On this sunny early afternoon Di Palma Cream Ices and Johnny's Creamy Ices compete for trade (centre), and people sit in the rose garden formed next to Trinity Church after the iron railings

It was the early use of bathing machines that made Weymouth such a popular resort for sea bathing.The larger machines ran down into the water on rails and consisted of a number of cubicles.

The area at the top of Staithes is known as Bank Top and here, in 1929, we see two recently- completed bay-fronted detached bungalows (right of view) which have been carefully positioned to take full

In the last years of the 19th century Marconi set up an early wireless transmitting station near to Totland Bay, exchanging radio signals with a steamer out at sea.

This shows the first of the plague of holiday chalets which swept along the cliffside before planning regulations prevented their building.

The coloured cliffs of Alum Bay are one of the most enduring sights on the Isle of Wight as far as visitors are concerned.

Part of the 'Cliftonville' area, these smart terraces housed the wealthy colonels, surgeons and Indian Army officers who retired to the seaside here. They enjoyed outstanding views across Weston Bay.

Between Whitstable and Herne Bay, this modern residential suburb and resort, with its grassy cliff-top promenade and shingle beach, was developed mainly in the years following the Second World War.

We now embark on a tour of the Moors or Levels, the vast flat lands of central Somerset, where great drains and canalised rivers keep the marshes at bay. We

To the right of christ church is the Catholic Church of Our Lady of Light. The architect was F W Tasker and the church was opened on 15 October 1903.

They were built for the traffic across the bay from Morecambe and Arnside; the last steamer called in 1910. Here, the high tide has reached right up to the promenade.

The single-storey white building was the Coastguard Station, built between 1884 and 1904. Beacon Cottage, to the left, takes its name from the beacon that preceded the lighthouse of 1890.

The elegance of this 1860s stucco terrace with three-storey bay windows to each house and the long straight para- pet is now replaced by Grand Court, a higher block of 1960s flats: typical sea-front

Originally named after its fine view overlooking the jetty, this street retained its name when the pier was built.

Looking out into Christchurch Bay, Mudeford remains the centre of Dorset's small-scale fishing industry, though leisure yachting has dominated from the middle of the 20th century.

The Old House (left) dates from 1678, and it is a prominently sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.

To the east of Margate, and south of Foreness Point, Kingsgate Bay is marked by this gap in the cliffs.

This view shows Cei Bach (Little Quay), where a number of boats were built, with the typical Ceredigion coast beyond.