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Two enterprising businessmen laid out this seaside resort in the early 1830s, and the arrival of the railway in 1833 encouraged its growth.

These trim houses with their first-floor verandas overlooking the shingle beach and breakwaters, and the neat gardens behind their fences, present an almost idyllic seaside vista.

Scarborough's sandy beaches are still as popular now with northern holidaymakers, who still throng to the seaside town for the donkey rides, candy floss and sticks of rock as they did 40 years ago.

Exmouth is reputed to be the oldest seaside town in Devon. People from Exeter used the sea and sands, the only good bathing beach in the east, back in the early seventeenth century.

Holiday-makers gather round one of the seaside entertainments. Unfortunately, we have no idea what they were watching, as the Frith cameraman didn't bother to record the details.

Beach huts, which could be rented on a weekly basis, have become a feature of the seaside scene.

By the twenties motor cars had almost completely replaced earlier horse- drawn transport, and charabanc tours had become a popular feature of a seaside holiday.

The Bacchus Hotel, a mainly 18th-century pantiled building predating the seaside resort's expansion, survives.

As a seaside town, Budleigh has developed almost entirely since the beginning of the eighteenth century. It was known as Saltre in 1210, and had become Salterne by 1405.

The cream of Victorian society visited the Singers at their imposing seaside home.

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

On weekdays, the main railway line from the Rhondda valley to Barry carried coal to the docks, but it was used on Sundays and bank holidays by excursion trains to the seaside.

Exmouth never had a pier in the traditional English seaside sense, just a landing stage to facilitate access to the larger passenger boats that visited the resort.

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.

The harp and the clown-like costumes are in fact the tell-tale signs that a Pierrot seaside concert party is touting for customers.

After the historic riches of Dunster we descend, physically as in other ways, to Blue Anchor Bay, a seaside resort with a long beach and little character.

This was probably the earliest seaside resort in the country. When the first train arrived here in July 1845, it brought with it the day-trippers.

This wonderful Heath Robinson-like piece of horological fantasy made a tour of seaside resorts in the l950s.

Even so, as long ago as this the trappings of a modern seaside resort were starting to appear.

Many wealthy business families from industrial Lancashire settled here as it became a fashionable seaside resort in the middle years of the 19th century.

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.

The sprawling seaside bungalowdom of Camber - the holiday village, camp and caravan site with associated amuse- ment arcades that have grown from the glorious expanse of Camber sands, where the tide

The story goes that 'Bugger Bognor' were King George V's last words when threatened with another recuperation near this seaside resort.

Nestling below the tree and shrub covered cliffs, with (on this occasion) sun- drenched water, this popular seaside resort has always attracted not only regular tourists but, appropriately,