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It is afternoon milking time, judging by the shadows, at Seatown Farm in Sea Vale Lane, which leads from Chideock to a beach beside the Anchor Inn.

The low coastal cliffs below the village provided a pleasant walk above the beach. Hidden by the trees is St Peter's Church, believed to have been founded in 967.

It had its own private staircase down to the beach.

Llangranog has a small, sheltered bay with a sandy beach on which about 20 ships were built during the 19th century. Like Tresaith, it became popular with holidaymakers from the 1930s.

This scene has hardly changed for many years; the beach at Polridmouth is still only accessible on foot.

The tall building with a flag flying at the top (right) was the Beach House Temperance Hotel.

Scarborough's sandy beaches are still as popular with northern holidaymakers, who still throng to the seaside town for the donkey rides, candy floss and sticks of rock as they did 50 years ago.

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

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.

The valley of the River Seaton runs inland from the beach to Hessenford.

The beach tents give the picture a period feeling. A bandstand once stood on the open area in front of the Marine Hotel.

Although Wells is a natural seaside resort with a soft sandy beach and shallow sea for bathing, the lookout and lifeboat station in the background mark the possibility of dangers, particularly for those

These dunes were banked up to stop sea encroachments, and this set of steps had to be erected to enable access to the beach.

Note the wheeled stalls on the beach, and the row of chairs all in a line.

The long promontory of Filey Brigg, part of a huge curve of cliffs, shelters this long stretch of firm beach from the worst of the north-east gales. A new parade was constructed in 1955.

At the beginning of the last millennium, marauding Danes landed on these sandy beaches and put the village of Exmouth to fire and sword.

The passenger launch SS 'Queen Elizabeth' has almost beached to disembark and take on board passengers. A gangplank has been laid to the foreshore.

This landmark at Towan Beach becomes a true island at high tide. A house was built here and connected to the mainland by a suspension footbridge in the early 20th century.

Certainly the ladies prefer this side, which has easy access to the beach from the smart part of town.

Hayle Bay, with its lines of evenly-breaking surf and golden sand, is now a mecca for surfers and tourists, and New Polzeath has grown along the low cliffs on the opposite side of the beach.

By 1918 Margate Council had become envious of Pettman's monopoly of bathing at Cliftonville and made a charge for the bathing rights and the hiring of deckchairs on the popular Cliftonville beaches

With its sheltered sandy beaches, it has become popular with holiday makers.

The village stands on the skyline above the approach to the popular golden sand of Crantock Beach.

A number of people, on the beach by the bathing machines in the distant back ground, enjoy the mirror-calm water.