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Kiosks on the beach; donkey rides; parasols; shady hats. All the ingredients for a perfect seaside holiday.

Kiosks on the beach; donkey rides; parasols; shady hats. All the ingredients for a perfect seaside holiday.

If the beach was too far afield for the older generation, then there were plenty of seats and shelters along the clifftop where one could sit in the sun or the shade, and catch up with the

A large crowd is gathered on the beach in the centre of this photograph, possibly to watch 'Uncle Mac and his Minstrels.'

The Pavilion remains today an important venue for plays and concerts, surrounded by lovely gardens and with the beach and sea just across the road.

Possibly the last knotted hankie to be seen on an English beach.

There are several beached boats, the first complete with tender.

Back Beach was the fiefdom of William Curtis & Sons, boatmen and fish merchants from nearby Long Entry on Church Cliffs. The spot was locally known as Curtis Cove.

Coney Beach funfair was built in 1920 on an old ballast tip. The first ride was a figure-of-eight ride, housed in two World War I hangers.

Rowing boats are drawn up on the small shingle beach on the west side of Charlestown harbour, with the Polmear Island rock behind.

This is the westerly end of Lydstep Cavern Beach; here we see the aptly named Saddle Back and Saddle Point, with the cave and fissures worn into the vertical strata of limestone.

A view of one of the beaches which look out over Galway Bay to County Clare and the limestone landscape of the Burren.

Donkey rides, beach chairs, heavy clothes - these are the delights of a British seaside day out!

Children with hoops play on the clifftop promenade, a breezy spot high above the beach. The octagonal building is a newspaper kiosk. Today, the east promenade overlooks the new Ramsgate Port.

Overdressed holidaymakers in sun hats enjoy the sands in this view from Great Western Beach towards the Atlantic Hotel on the headland of the Beacon.

The beach below White Cliff has long been one of Seaton's favoured bathing places, recommended in many guidebooks, though a charge of 4d was made during the earlier decades of the last

The three-gabled timber-framed building on the right is 14th century, and until recently was the well-known antiquarian bookshop, Beach's.

This view looks along the shingle beach which fronts the marshland towards Fairlight.

This is the first beach around the corner from the main breakwater of Par Harbour. Steps cut into the rock lead down the cliff from Spit Point.

Long shadows indicate the end of a pleasurable day's sailing from this well-known beach.

This is a busy scene, with thousands of holidaymakers on the beach. The western shelter has now been completed, and work on the finishing of the promenade and the eastern shelter is under way.

Two packed motorboats pass the beach chalets north of the Pier. Later, the chalets were to be rebuilt to face inland, as well as towards the sea.

This view of Coney Beach shows ladies wearing long dresses, the men wearing suits and the children fully dressed - there is not a bathing costume in sight.

Another view, this time looking south along the beach towards Carrickfergus. Belfast Lough is on the left, and the hotel and refreshment room are on the right.