Search Results

Although there is no evidence of habitation here before the 17th century, this windswept north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey has since enjoyed a measure of success as a seaside resort as a result

The seaside end of the Isle of Purbeck branch railway arrived in Swanage from Wareham in 1885.

The old village centre is separated from the seaside expansion. Church Street, in typical Sussex brick and flint, runs from the medieval church to The Lamb Inn.

At this time, Felixstowe was a genteel seaside resort, with steamers pulling up at the pier with passengers from Great Yarmouth, Walton-on-the-Naze, Clacton, and even London.

The quiet little seaside town of Selsey was once part of a small island.

Thorpeness was a planned seaside resort financed by Glencain Stuart Ogilvie in 1910-28 as a Tudor fantasy for the middle classes.

Seaside and Coastal Sussex: From Bosham to Rye

Thorpeness was a planned seaside resort financed by Glencain Stuart Ogilvie between 1910 and 1928 as a Tudor fantasy for the middle classes.

Every aspect of a seaside holiday is shown here. We see sandcastles, deck chairs, gentlemen paddling with their trousers tucked up, and ladies doing the same whilst carrying their shoes.

The parade of shops (left) proclaims that a once quiet seaside village is becoming a busy township - we can see Ellwood's, the Midland Bank, a chemist, and a newsagent and tobacconist.

Once a port described by Daniel Defoe as 'fairer, and much deeper, than those at Watchet and Porlock', it turned into a major seaside bathing resort in the later 19th century.

This end of a narrow valley at the foot of a steep hill has been a popular seaside resort for many years. It also had nearby coal-pits, which transported some of their coal from the beach here.

Cleethorpes is a very popular seaside resort, despite being on the estuary of the river Humber and not the sea proper.

This photograph has a seaside look about it, and it is a breezy and sunny day. The far distant houses are built on the sand hills, and would get the full force of any gales.

Lower Promenade c1955 Along with Roker, Seaburn comprises what is in effect the seaside resort area of Sunderland; there have been times when the Cat and Dog steps have positively heaved with sunbathers

Seaside and Coastal Sussex: From Bosham to Rye

Rhos, as it is known, is less commercialised than some of its neighbours, and remains a gentle mix of resort and rural seaside town.

The summer exodus of holidaymakers to the seaside resorts of Britain made piers a popular and lucrative venture. This Victoria Pier has had a chequered history.

We are now in seaside, holiday Lincolnshire; we start in Skegness, whose skipping sailor symbol and slogan 'Skegness is so Bracing' is very well-known.

37890 in the opposite direction, four years later, revealing the rich assortment of buildings and businesses which had developed along this stretch of the main highway running between London and the seaside

Six miles south of Craster, the seaside resort of Alnmouth was once the port for Alnwick.

A tourist not infrequently takes considerable trouble to find out some charming seaside village in which he may dream out his few brief weeks of leisure in ineffable content and rest, soothed by the ever-present

Named after the Steyne in Brighton, this delightful and relatively unchanged long narrow square was laid out in the 1820s and is lined by modest seaside houses, many with verandahs and balconies which

Reculver is a popular little seaside town on the coast between the Thanet resorts and Herne Bay. There was once a Roman Saxon Shore Fort here.