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St Ives is seen from Draycott Terrace, overlooking cottages in Primrose Valley below and the curving sweep of the railway station beyond, most of which is now a car park.

In the decades following the First World War, Exmouth reached the heights of its fame as a holiday resort, thanks to the greater mobility offered by railway trains and motor vehicles

The long, sandy beach leading eastwards to Hengistbury Head began to be developed around 1870. The pier was built of iron in 1881, and measured 300 feet in length by 30 feet wide.

The cliff tramway was opened in 1884, replacing an earlier vertical hoist installed in 1870.

The crew of a Sheringham crab boat pose for the camera. These clinker built, double-ended open boats were approximately 18ft long and carried a dipping lug sail of up to 120 sq ft.

A late Edwardian scene before development took place along Grand Parade, and when grassy sand dunes filled the space where the Embassy Centre is now situated.

The boat lying on the beach in the fore ground, in Hugh Town harbour, is vaguely reminiscent of an ex-ships' lifeboat, and shows the rugged clinker-built construction of this type of craft.

Golden Cap rises at the centre, with tree-coverd Langdon Hill (top right) to landward.

These timber-clad cottages, standing at the foot of the white cliffs, are part of a small community which developed both as a bathing resort and as a residential quarter in the closing years

These timber-clad cottages, standing at the foot of the white cliffs, are part of a small community which developed both as a bathing resort and as a residential quarter in the closing years

Pwllheli (the name means 'saltwater pool') was granted its charter in 1355.

Here we have an early view of Towan Beach, with everyone overdressed for the seaside. A game of tennis is in progress on a court marked out in the sand.

Lloyds Bank used to operate from the house on the extreme right. These days it is a private house once more. Next door is the Catholic church of St Peter and St Paul.

Positioned on the Firth of Clyde, this seaside resort looks across the Firth towards Kilcreggan, Loch Long and Dunoon.

The inn was built in 1927 using traditional materials, especially local flint; its design makes it look much older then it really is.

Beyond the Bay Private Hotel and Madeira Cottages (left centre) are Hardown Hill, Stonebarrow Hill (centre) and Golden Cap (right). Seaward are a series of ledges.

The story of the demise of Dunwich, in medieval times a prosperous port until the ravages of the North Sea gradually demolished its soft, sandy cliffs, is one of the most romantic of the Suffolk coast.

Boats are on the Chesil Beach between Chiswell and Victoria Sqaure (top left), with Portland Harbour on the other side of the pebble bank (centre background), in a panorama north-westwards from Paradise

Recreational Facilities also with those who wish to experience invigorating walks by the sea during the sometimes less inviting off-season weather.

However, some areas of the Durham coast were polluted with spoil dumped directly into the sea from nearby collieries.

This is an early view of the bridge from the town side. Billy Moore's Boat Statoin (known to the local children as 'Noah's Ark') has still to make its appearance.

The lower end of the Bude Canal has a basin with a sea lock to allow ships to enter and remain afloat. Three vessels are in port, while a fourth one lies aground beyond the lock gates.

This popular seaside resort sits in a wide sweep of bay on the north coast, with wooded hills behind the promenade, which fronts miles of safe sandy beach.

Sandsend was just three miles along the sandy beach from Whitby.