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The old harbour stands on the shores of the Mawddach estuary, and was formerly of some importance. Nearby, the viewpoint of Dinas Oleu was the National Trust's first property.

George's Dock was built out from the original shore-line and opened in 1771.

It was also a desolate scene when John Constable spent his honeymoon here in 1816 with the Fisher family in the vicarage, and painted 'Osmington Shore, near Weymouth' which now hangs in the Louvre.

This must be one of the last photographs of the old military hospital at Netley before most of it disappeared from the shores of Southampton Water in a huge heap of rubble.

This is how a guide to seaside resorts of 1895 described Rhyl: 'Not many years ago there was no town here at all, but merely a few fishermen's huts upon the shore.

This is how a guide to seaside resorts of 1895 described Rhyl: 'Not many years ago there was no town here at all, but merely a few fishermen's huts upon the shore.

Further west the shore bulges out round the promontory of the Wish Tower, in fact a Martello tower or fortlet built in large numbers to defend the coast from Napoleon.

Further west the shore bulges out round the promontory of the Wish Tower, in fact a Martello tower or fortlet built in large numbers to defend the coast from Napoleon.

This is the road down to the shore (and Red Bank Farm). Red Bank is one of the spots from which you can cross the sands over to Kents Bank.

There was once a Roman Saxon Shore Fort here. Its bricks were later used to build the towers we see here, known locally as the 'two sisters' (see Davington).

But in 1870, twenty-six years before this photograph was taken, it became steam-operated; this resulted in the building of the Ferry Hotel on the western shore in 1879.

This quaint inland port was built originally for Roman galleys to service Richborough in the face of a receding shore line.

Deck chairs on the paving and on the kerb above, concrete pillars, a wall to obscure the view and a rocky shore at high tide seem to invite only the intrepid holidaymaker.

The name Hoylake refers to Hoyle Lake, a deep-water anchorage just off the shore and favoured by ships transporting cargoes of goods and passengers either along the Dee Estuary or into Liverpool.

The present foreground view remains similar to this picture, but the area between the far side of the lake and the shore has been transformed by the buildings of the Ocean Plaza retail and

The name of this historic village derives from the flatfish called 'flukes', caught off the shore in Morecombe Bay. There is a poster for cocoa in the window of the Co-op shop on the left.

Helston Penrose Walk 1913 Penrose Walk runs from the bottom end of Coronation Park down to the Loe and follows its shore to Penrose.

Known today for its massive castle, one of Edward I's chain of fortresses built to subdue the Welsh, this town on the shore of the Menai Strait at the mouth of the River Seiont is now staunchly Welsh-speaking

The entry for Southport in one 1921 guidebook states: 'on the once lonely shore has now developed a very attrac- tive seaside-resort and residential town, whose fine streets, notably Lord Street, challenge

This shore establish- ment gave its young recruits a stiff taste of discipline to fit them for their careers in the Navy.

On the right-hand shore the B4405 snakes along towards Cross Foxes and Dolgellau.

This picture shows the Trossachs Hotel situated on the northern shore, and the wooded slopes of Sron Armailte.

Sailing was one of the favourite pastimes of the wealthy late 19th-century 'off-comers' who built houses close to the shore of the lake.

On the shore, registered M26, is Annie, a 23-ton trawling ketch with a 45ft keel; owned by George Rowe of Harding Street, it carried 2 men and a boy.