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With deck chairs, buckets, spades and ball, everything is set for an ideal day at the seaside.

Most seaside piers started out as purely functional structures, a way to allow boats and ships to moor off towns without a harbour.

Although already developed as a port, it was primarily the railway which brought holidaymakers to enjoy the town as a seaside resort.

Architects, like everyone else, tend to fling off their inhibitions at the seaside. Here a Chinese-inspired pagoda with veranda provides a welcome spot for visitors to repose out of the sun.

Among the popular seaside entertainments were minstrel shows, which had originated in the USA in the early nineteenth century.

Dozens of deckchairs can be seen either side of it, creating a timeless seaside picture. Much rarer today is the sight of women pushing prams.

Known more these days as a container port, Felixstowe in 1906 was a genteel seaside resort, and steamers would have pulled up at the pier bringing passengers from Great Yarmouth, Walton-on-the-Naze, Clacton

Thomas Hardy described Swanage as '…a seaside village, lying snugly within two headlands as between a finger and thumb'.

Although Yarmouth never really developed as a traditional seaside resort, there are stretches of sand available for bathing.

The extensive seaside resort was developed in Victorian days, after the arrival of the railway.

Plymouth never quite achieved the status of being a major seaside resort, though tourists have always bathed from its beaches and promenaded across the famous Hoe.

Plymouth never quite achieved the status of being a major seaside resort, though tourists have always bathed from its beaches and promenaded across the famous Hoe.

When the railway came to Grange-over-Sands in 1857 it signalled the town's rapid expansion as a seaside resort for visitors from the industrial mill towns of Lancashire.

market as building land in 1935, but it was purchased in 1938 by the London Parochial Charities as a campsite for the children of families living in the East End of London who could not afford a sea-side

At this time Sheringham was developing into a popular seaside resort which would rival Cromer, though the inclination of the townsfolk was to ensure that it retained its charm.

In the 1950s seaside towns had a revival, and were often very crowded. Hired deckchairs occupy much of the space on the beach.

The Dutch gables on the hotels and apartments are typical of Bexhill's Victorian architecture, although the seaside buildings favour the Moorish look: provincial and dim echoes of the Brighton Pavilion

Given its proximity to the seaside towns of Lymington and Christchurch, Sway became a popular place to live during the 20th century.

By the 1920s cars had almost completely replaced horse-drawn carriages, and charabanc tours had become a popular feature of a seaside holiday.

In the background are the Sailor's Home Inn, Seaside Villas and Beach Villas of 1892.

A fine study taken from the pier, showing the vast bulk of the castle towering above the little seaside town which has grown up in its shadow.

In Victorian and Edwardian times, when most seaside resorts came into being, part of the entertainment would involve listening to musicians performing in specially constructed bandstands, like this one

An evocative view of the seaside, with deckchairs and pleasure craft on this low headland jutting out into the Thames estuary towards Kent.

The buildings on the sea shore indicate that the transformation from fishing village to seaside resort is now complete.