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This small seaside town on the west coast overlooks the wide sandy expanse of the Dyfi estuary.

Bowls was one of the most popular seaside holiday pastimes and every resort had at least one bowling green, supplemented by lawn tennis courts in some cases, and of course by the more lighthearted

Seaside and Coastal Sussex: From Bosham to Rye

This small seaside town on the west coast overlooks the wide sandy expanse of the Dyfi estuary.

37890 in the opposite direction, four years later, revealing the rich assortment of buildings and businesses which had developed along this stretch of the main highway running between London and the seaside

Backed by the tall 52-year-old buildings of the Esplanade, the Parade was Rhyl's only real attempt at elegant seaside architecture.

Two views of this charming seaside village street, taken a decade apart, but in which little appears to have changed.

But as in all English seaside towns, package holidays abroad brought about the demise of these places.

Seaside bustle on the promenade, built as the old Upper Walk between the town and the Cobb Harbour in 1817; it is now known as Marine Parade.

sea, the people living in the harbour were a separate population from the rest of the town, and a visitor to Tenby noted that 'in town boys are limited to their mischief but at the seaside

This is how a guide to seaside resorts of 1895 described Rhyl: 'Not many years ago there was no town here at all, but merely a few fishermen's huts upon the shore.

This is how a guide to seaside resorts of 1895 described Rhyl: 'Not many years ago there was no town here at all, but merely a few fishermen's huts upon the shore.

Seaside and Coastal Sussex: From Bosham to Rye

Seaside and Coastal Sussex: From Bosham to Rye

The first master plan drawn up by Henry Currey, the Duke of Devonshire's surveyor, covered the stucco seaside terrace and squares.

In Victorian times it was still a busy port with a shipbuilding industry, although efforts to turn it into a seaside resort proved unsuccessful.

This a row of typical seaside hotels and boarding houses, and it still looks the same.

This popular seaside town was built around a mill and an old village. The cliffs rise to about 70ft, and are the seaward end of the chalk ridge which stretches right across Norfolk.

This a row of typical seaside hotels and boarding houses, and it still looks the same.

Llandudno is the archetypal genteel, middle-class British seaside town with its sweeping promenade, pier, grand hotels and public spaces.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Brighton was the most popular seaside resort in Britain, and Campbells could, and did, reinforce their Brighton fleet when necessary by transferring steamers from

The characteristic mid-Victorian, family-orientated, open-air seaside culture, which offered a satisfaction of its own, and the town's secure, peaceful ambience is captured in this view of the beach.

Tourism was also hampered by the depression of the 1920s, and there was to be growing competition from the other seaside resorts after the Second World War which would diminish visitor numbers further.

Moving away from the seaside, via Southend High Street, the Civic Centre is to be found in Victoria Avenue.