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The teashop on the left (supplying trays for the beach) was one of the many refreshment places in this historic little town - a favourite haunt of Charles Dickens.

At the time of this photograph, a character known as Blind Martin accompanied by his faithful dog used to move around the streets and beach trundling a harmonium on wheels.

The fishermen relax on the cliff top, whilst their boats are drawn up on the beach.

Behind the crammed Edwardian beach, with boats launched into the millpond of a sea, most of the buildings of Grand Parade survive today, the notable exception being the small gabled house, now replaced

Its quaint, colour-washed cottages complement the easy access to the beach. It is hard to imagine that the harbour was mainly used for the export of anthracite and coal.

This picture of the front shows a cargo vessel and numerous small fishing boats beached opposite the church.

This picture of the front shows a cargo vessel and numerous small fishing boats beached opposite the church.

Sand yachts were large four-wheeled vehicles mounting a yacht rig and capable of tearing up and down the beach at high speed.

Morfa Nefyn, one mile from Nefyn town, has a fine sandy beach. The headland at Porthdinllaen offered a natural anchorage, sheltered from the prevailing south-west winds.

Sailing barges are beached on the far shore. Francis Frith's Kent Aylesford Aylesford is a perfectly sited village by the River Medway and the scene of many battles in ancient times.

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

West Dorset's medieval seamark on a conical hill above the Chesil Beach was retained after the closure of Abbotsbury Abbey in 1539, and repaired in 1742.

fishermen whose boats are lined up on the foreshore, grew up around the declivity where the local stream, the Wynreford, after passing through Chideock, finally reaches the sea on this shingle beach

The rowing boats and solitary figure standing on the isolated shingle beach offer a rare glimpse of what is now part of the Army`s prohibited Lulworth Range.

Sand yachts were large four-wheeled vehicles mounting a yacht rig and capable of tearing up and down the beach at high speed.

Its name means 'mouth of the water', and with its two beaches, natural harbour and 13th-century castle, it has long been popular with visitors.

It must have been very different from this scene of holidaymakers on the beach.

Then building began in earnest as visitors flocked to enjoy its safe, sandy beach and bracing cliff-top walks.

Hence Rhyl has become noted for the number of children that visit it, and these little ones find an inexhaustible fund of pleasure on its beach.

Hence Rhyl has become noted for the number of children that visit it, and these little ones find an inexhaustible fund of pleasure on its beach.

This view looks across the beach with numerous four-wheeled bathing machines that allowed modest entry into the sea for the serious business of sea-bathing.

This view looks across the beach with numerous four-wheeled bathing machines that allowed modest entry into the sea for the serious business of sea-bathing.

This is a view along East Street to the former Market Place, from the Greyhound Hotel (left) which faces the wonderfully elaborate Georgian shop-front of Beach and Company.

Architecturally, the building is more typical of arterial roads, rather than that expected beside the B3157 coast road (bottom right), a mile inland from the western end of the Chesil Beach.