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Church Cove was a pilchard fishing place, with boats hauled up the steep beach, and there was also a lifeboat station here for a while until 1899.

This magnificent view was taken from the east. The stooks lend period atmosphere to the harvest scene; the view today is far more built-up.

Redcar's popularity for the past 150 years has largely depended upon the attractions of the sea and the beach. A group of roundabouts and swings offers entertainment for the children.

Rows of fishing boats are mostly aground where they are moored in the harbour. Smaller boats are drawn right up to the buildings in the background, for the Wharf wall had not yet been built.

Incredible numbers of peo- ple crammed aboard paddle steamers such as the 'Empress' (centre) which has just arrived in Lulworth Cove.

This scene is characteristic of the North Norfolk coast: the walls and houses are built of whole flints found in the fields or on the nearby beach.

The small beach to the left is at Prechers Rock.

The only attractions on offer here are boat trips and donkey rides; to the far right, on the water's edge, are a number of wheeled bathing machines.

A substantial shingle beach this may be, but it offers no protection to the sandy cliffs. All Saints' Church now stands at the edge, soon to join the lost medieval town in a watery grave.

We are looking along the Benthills road towards Aldeburgh. A variety of impressive cars have parked, possibly marking the advent of day trippers, which Ogilvie did not really want.

Motor launches are moored at the landing stages and are taking on passengers. These stages had to be manhandled up and down the beach as the tide went out and came in.

Specimens of 'Little Trees', a species of deep water coral so named because of its shape, are sometimes washed up on the beach at Crackington.

The cliff on the right now has a row of houses at the top.

Exmouth's long sea front and sandy beaches made sea-bathing a popular recreation from the town's earliest days as a resort. Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities.

The new housing developments of both pre- and post-war Britain most often came with a small parade of shops to serve the new residents.

Newlyn was the first Cornish town to attract the attention of artists.

Trading schooners are beached, waiting for their cargo to be taken ashore by horse and cart.

The Marine Hotel (left), built in 1900, dominates this open sea front expanse. In the distance some of the houses on the green are visible. Hartlepool lies in the far distance on the right.

To the left, overlooking the beach, stands the lifeboat station and, on the right, one of the town's two lighthouses.

This is a great place for a seaside holiday, with golden sand serviced by the growing resort of Newquay, with hotels and boarding houses built literally to the cliff edge.

The ship on the beach is typical of the two-masted coastal schooners that plied their trade in the days before motor vehicles came to be used for the moving of commodities.

Here we see the bare central beach of a century ago, with no Embassy Centre, fairground car park, Marine Walk and Esplanade, shops, arcades or cafés.

During the Second World War villagers were evacuated from many villages around the South Hams so that the district could become a D-Day training ground for American soldiers, who would practise troop

Extensive and beautiful sandy beaches brought ever- increasing numbers of visitors to the North Wales coast.