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It was the coming of the railway that transformed Whitley Bay into a resort and commuter country.

This is Main Bay, which changed its name to Viking Bay following the arrival in 1949 of a replica Viking ship, the Hugin.

Towards the end of Queen Victoria's reign, Ladram Bay had become a popular destination for trippers, who would arrive by boat from neighbouring resorts.

This view looks across the bay, with the chalk height of Beer Head in the far distance. Among the pebbles on Seaton's beach may be found jasper, beryl and garnet.

Here we see Swansea Bay Station and the Slip. A fairground, market, ice-cream stalls, and so on were all to be found here in their day. The

Totland Bay is the westernmost inhabited bay on the Isle of Wight, with views up the English Channel to Bournemouth and the Dorset coast.

Just over a mile separates this popular sandy bay from St Ives. Above the coast path at Porthminster Point lived the 'Huer', whose job it was to watch for the arrival of the pilchard shoals.

The central bays of the promenade building survive, but the arched bays on each side were rebuilt in the 1950s.

Here we have a closer view of the wall and walk built from the cliff opposite, encompassing the ground later laid out as gardens, and earlier as a swimming pool, by the Pegwell Bay Reclamation

Colwell Bay, just west of Yarmouth, has a good mile of sand sheltered by the low cliffs behind.

Victorian entrepreneurs sought to transform little West Bay into a major resort, but they did not succeed, probably because of the considerable competition from neighbouring watering places.

The sweep of Lyme Bay and the attractions of the Exe estuary had made Exmouth a favoured resort for those who wanted to take to the water for a small voyage.

It is some twenty years on from photograph number 44810, and West Bay has changed little. Note the bathing tents on the promenade.

The chalk cliffs of the coast at Broadstairs show superbly in this late Victorian view, looking across Louisa Bay and Viking Bay towards the harbour, in the days before any coastal protection work

We are looking over Weston Bay and the sands from near the Grand Pier; beyond we can see (from left to right) Knightstone Harbour, Glentworth Bay and Birnbeck and Knightstone Roads, with the spire of Holy

It is low tide in this view looking towards the slipway and the Bay Hotel. The Bay itself sweeps around from Ness Point in the north to the 600ft high cliffs of Ravenscar, at the other end.

The Working Men's Club Union Convalescent Home at Pegwell Bay had a Mrs M E Boyland as superintendent, and B T Hall as secretary.

West Bay has now become the setting for a popular television series, 'Harbour Lights', which has brought many more tourists to the village.

Two miles west of Margate, Westgate on Sea has two bays; sea walls built along the curves of the bays form two promenades with steps down to the beach, and gardens are laid out for the benefit of visitors

Outside the hall, Nicholas Sotherton's traceried bay window is flanked by Francis Cock's staircase bay of a century later. Both were added to a 15th-century structure.

Looking down the steep Main Street of Robin Hood's Bay, across the pantiled roofs of the picturesque village to the sweeping curve of the bay and the headland of Old Peak or South Cheek in the background

This general view looks west over the bay towards the town. Beyond the pier, which appears to be under construction, is Bryn Euryn, and Little Orme Head is in the distance (right).

The Cliffe Hotel was a very popular hotel in Victorian days.

This view shows the headland that separates the two bays. The northern (further) bay penetrates well inland and provided good shelter for boats, with limekilns, storehouses and coal yards nearby.