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A substantial shingle beach this may be, but it offers no protection to the sandy cliffs. All Saints' Church now stands at the edge, soon to join the lost medieval town in a watery grave.

At one stage the residents of Benthills enjoyed exclusive use of the beach area in front of their houses - 'The Benthills Enclosure'.

More Americans died training here than were killed on Utah Beach on D-Day.

The erection of iron railings by the Windsor Estate to enclose and prevent access to the beach except by gates is already under way.

These stages had to be manhandled up and down the beach as the tide went out and came in.

In late Victorian tour guides, Clevedon was noted for its good beach, its pier, and the surrounding countryside, which was considered to be exceptionally beautiful.

The Newlyn School numbered among its luminaries Henry Scott Tuke, Edwin Harris and William Wainwright, but the leading light was undoubtedly Stanhope Forbes, whose masterpiece 'Fish Sale on Newlyn Beach

Redcar's popularity for the past 150 years has largely depended upon the attractions of the sea and the beach. A group of roundabouts and swings offers entertainment for the children.

The whitewashed Fore Street Methodist chapel is to the right, likewise built onto the harbour beach.

Extensive and beautiful sandy beaches brought ever- increasing numbers of visitors to the North Wales coast.

It is rumoured that the young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret once stayed at the summerhouse he built for his wife above the beach.

Church Cove was a pilchard fishing place, with boats hauled up the steep beach, and there was also a lifeboat station here for a while until 1899.

The tramway offered holiday-makers an alternative means of escape from the beach to the Esplanade, other than by the 224 steps cutting through the Spa Gardens, and all for just 1d.

Margate is today a bustling seaside resort on the Isle of Thanet, with many miles of sandy beaches, and typical seaside attractions.

Its unspoilt beach, fine coastal vistas and village atmosphere drew the more discerning visitor.

Trading schooners are beached, waiting for their cargo to be taken ashore by horse and cart.

They are about to walk the plank down to the shingle beach beside the cafe (bottom left). Lulworth was a favourite stopping point on services between Weymouth and Swanage.

Concerns were aroused after a number of incidents where bowls fell over the cliff and narrowly missed people on the beach below.

Subsequent silting of the river mouth and its movement to the east thanks to a shifting shingle beach led to the decline of the port at Steyning, and the establishment of the town of New Shoreham by the

Beyond the line of bathing machines, waves crash against the beach in this turn-of-the-century photograph. Much of the town's architecture dating from this period survives today.

The inscription on the stone says that unscrupulous thieves plundered the bodies as they lay on the beach.

We view the town from the beach below the Royal Standard. The North Wall (right centre) has since been joined to the mainland (in 1979) by a random wall of rough boulders.

Note the wheeled bathing machines down by the sea, and the curious beach tents and a few deckchairs. Long skirts and parasols are the fashion for the ladies.

A steeply shelving beach on the left-hand side contrasts strongly with the gently sloping mud flats on the other side of this river.