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A straight and wide road leading to the quay creates an impression of past importance.The Romans, the Saxons and the Vikings used the area for invasion.

On the beach in the background are a number of bathing machines. Ladies wishing to bathe would enter the machines from the landward side and horses would haul the contraptions down into the water.

On the beach in the background are a number of bathing machines. Ladies wishing to bathe would enter the machines from the landward side and horses would haul the contraptions down into the water.

The pair of wooden houses were called Montpelier in 1885; the next building is of 1889, and the building partly hidden by trees was Harland House in 1885.

The South Cliff Tramway offered an alternative means of escape from the beach to the Esplanade; the other way up was by the 224 steps cutting through the Spa Gardens.

Here we see another busy beach view in 'The Empress of Watering Places' with many umbrellas protecting ladies from the summer sun.

Here we see the harbour on Hollingworth Lake. Not only were rowing boats, racing skiffs and dinghies a common sight, but there was even a time when the lake had its own paddle steamer.

This popular cafe supplied everything to provide a fun day for all the family: buckets, spades, fishing nets and trays of tea and sandwiches.

The small parking strip adjoining the Clock Tower contains two motor taxis, a pony trap, a landau and an open omnibus drawn by two horses happily munching away in their nosebags.

The vessel approaching the beach, probably on an excursion, is the 'Reindeer', a ferry launched in 1875 as the successor to the 18-ton 'Queen', which had run from 1860.

This is the first view that many visitors would have had of Borth.

Blundellsands beach forms part of the sixteen miles of sand stretching from Waterloo to Southport.

Bournemouth Pier stands above the original mouth of the River Bourne. Its construction marked the town's commitment to its role as a resort.

Note the sign for Southdown Buses, and a reminder that the last boat sails at 8.45 (left). The island railway opened in the 1860s, crossing to Hayling from Havant over a wooden bridge.

Littlehampton had been an important port in the Middle Ages and even a Tudor royal shipyard, but it declined until reviving with the canalisation of the Arun in 1723; it was most successful during Victorian

Seen as a ruin, looking east from the beach of Worbarrow Bay, stone-roofed Sea Cottage was the home of generations of the Miller family.

The Beach 1890. The suffix 'Regis' was added to the name of this seaside town in 1929 after George V spent some weeks recuperating in the area following a major illness.

St Ives is seen from Draycott Terrace, overlooking cottages in Primrose Valley below and the curving sweep of the railway station beyond, most of which is now a car park.

In the decades following the First World War, Exmouth reached the heights of its fame as a holiday resort, thanks to the greater mobility offered by railway trains and motor vehicles

The name of the town does not refer to any beach, but comes from the Old English word 'beck', meaning 'stream'. Clayhithe was the harbour of Waterbeach; the word 'hythe' means 'landing-place'.

The long, sandy beach leading eastwards to Hengistbury Head began to be developed around 1870. The pier was built of iron in 1881, and measured 300 feet in length by 30 feet wide.

Cromer's lifeboat has a reputation which goes far beyond its sphere of operation on the North Norfolk coast.

The heart of Georgian Weymouth overlooks the sands from the Gloucester Hotel (top left) and the Royal Hotel (centre left), in a broad sweep around to the Victorian spire of St John's Church and Brunswick

The wheeled bathing machines of earlier pictures have been replaced by this array of circular tents, allowing Edwardians to divest themselves in privacy.