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Anstey's Cove, with Redgate Beach hidden on the left, was a favourite bathing spot for Agatha Christie, who was born in Torquay in 1890.

Hence Rhyl has become noted for the number of children that visit it, and these little ones find an inexhaustible fund of pleasure on its beach. The iron pier was built in 1867.

Once a sleepy Devon backwater, Croyde's beach and bay was discovered by holidaymakers in the 19th century. With two huge caravan parks, this area fills up dramatically in the short summer season.

Posed on Goscar Rock on Tenby's North Beach, these women were paid for their work as models.

There are swings on the beach (extreme left of picture) and tea, refreshments and hot water can be obtained from the café by the roadside.

Traditionally in the ownership of wealthy occupants, the private steps leading down to the beach still belong to these houses, except those on the extreme left.

The groynes on the beach indicate the ferocious tidal currents; in 1931 these currents seriously undermined a row of cottages up the road on the seaward side, that were subsequently

The ice cream shop on the corner is also stocked with plastic beach balls and even a paddling pool.

Then building began in earnest as visitors flocked to enjoy its safe, sandy beach and bracing cliff-top walks. The new town is gathered around an expansive green.

It can be appreciated from this photograph how the bleak area of beach and pools resulted from the infilling of the bay by silt and sand from the china clay industry; the old cliff line

The children are bare-footed, not just because they are on the beach; boots were worn only on Sundays.

Two routes are to be seen in the background leading to the beach. To the right, the private steps (now lost) from the Manor Hotel led to their own promenade.

A family walk down Magazine Lane Slipway onto the beach. This is close to the site of the magazines: ships entering the Mersey had to deposit any gunpowder there during their stay in port.

A row of small fishing boats is drawn up on the beach; they were used to gather shrimps and lobsters. A lifeboat station (left background) was at the ready to cope with any rescue missions at sea.

A hugely expansive beach here means that it never fills up with holidaymakers in this popular resort and former fishing and trading port.

Prior to that it had been little more than a settlement of fishing cottages down by the beach, below the village of Broadwater.

It is now replaced by an altogether more testing version as part of the Pleasure Beach complex.

Here, on a sunny 1950s summer's day, the shingle West Beach is crowded; in the distance is Southend and its pier. The view is now changed, with 1960s tower blocks of flats on the skyline.

Known today for its caravan parks and the long sandy beach of Black Rock sands, Morfa Bychan, just west of Porthmadog, was long celebrated for the story of Dafydd Garreg-Wen, the blind harpist, known for

Ladies were obliged to bathe nearer to the beach, and wore some sort of gown.

Here we look beyond the licensed donkey ride man, the helter-skelter and beach fun fair, the bathing machines and the booths towards the then splendid pier.

The Lincolnshire coast is well known for its sandy beaches, and Mablethorpe and Sutton on Sea are outstanding, as this photograph shows.

At the centre of the photograph a wooden slipway stands idle – this section of the beach is apparently deserted.

The magnificent beach at Rhosili, accessible only along narrow paths, and popular with swimmers and surfers, curves for 3 miles. The barque 'Helvetia' was wrecked here in 1877.