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From the bottom of Valley Road the camera captures a crowded South Beach scene, and a bay full of sail-driven fishing boats.

Here we see one of the famous Lincolnshire beaches with its necessary donkeys. No beach is complete without these loveable and cuddlesome beasts, all with their friendly names.

These colourful beach huts provide a place to change into swimwear or to have a welcome brew-up of tea.

This view shows the beach bungalows which were built right behind the top of the beach. They were used by the military during the Second World War, but are no longer there today.

Paddling in streams and pools on the beach was popular in Victorian times. Note the hats and long dresses.

The beach at Spiddal has always been popular with Galway folk and other tourists. In this scene, the beach is quiet, with bathers enjoying a summer swim. The village is in the distance.

The concrete slipway is for fishing boats, which are dragged to the water by the tank-like vehicle.

By this time, Felixstowe was at the height of its popularity as a seaside resort, with its south-facing beach.

Here we see the post-1953 sea wall, stepped here to allow access to the beach.

This view, with well-clad visitors strolling along the beach and sailing boats drawn up on the shore, shows a south coast beach before development and formalisation changed its character.

Here we have a busy scene, with most of those enjoying the beach placing their deckchairs close to the sea wall. This is a sandy beach, ideal for making sand castles.

From the bottom of Valley Road the camera captures a crowded South Beach scene, and a bay full of sail-driven fishing boats.

Southsea's long shingle beach crowded with trippers. Not surprisingly, everyone in the picture is fully dressed.

This crowded beach beautifully illustrates the beach fashions of the 1920s: ladies wear summer dresses with straw hats, while the boys and gentlemen retain flat caps, jackets and trousers (rolled up

On the right is the path leading to Friars Point from the beach. Within a few years a beach inspector's/lifeguard's hut, ladies' changing rooms and a small paddling pool would be built near the path.

This panoramic view of Porthminster beach and St Ives was taken from near the local coastguard station. On the left of the picture pilchard boats can be seen drawn up at the top of the beach.

This view shows the beach complete with bathing tents.

The Beach c1960 With room to spare, this looks as though it was an ideal place to learn the basics of driving before tempting the fates on the open road.

Exmouth is reputed to be the oldest seaside town in Devon. People from Exeter used the sea and sands, the only good bathing beach in the east, back in the early seventeenth century.

Iron railings have now been erected, with a path from the promenade leading to the beach. As the season got under way, more and more attractions appeared.

As at Clovelly, donkeys were much in use here, ferrying herrings and lime from the kiln (centre) up the hill.

Beside Beach Villa with the Metropole just behind, the new cliff lift was in process of being constructed; it was eventually to make access to and from the beach much simpler.

Chesil Beach is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.The stones tend to be larger at one end of the beach than the other.

In the background are two liquid china clay storage tanks.