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The stout sea wall of today had not been built at the time of this photograph, hence the wide appearance of the beach.

The shingle expanse of Monmouth Beach extends seawards. The factory site became a Royal Air Force base for operating air-sea rescue craft and bombing range launches during the Second World War.

A two-masted sailing ship lies in a mud berth, a washing line post leans on the beach and women in long skirts stand and look towards the harbour.

Bathing machines can be seen on the beach.

Charles and William Warren were boatmen and Robert Warren quarried sand and sold shingle from the beach to the south.

This well-known holiday resort, which has an excellent sandy beach, stands on the west coast of Wales at the mouth of the Mawddach estuary. Both Darwin and Ruskin enjoyed stays here.

The two-mile-long parade overlooks the sandy beach; at the west end an extensive area was laid out as winter gardens.

The two sandy beaches are separated by a headland crowned by a Norman castle, developed by Edward I.

Charles and William Warren were boatmen and Robert Warren quarried sand and sold shingle from the beach to the south.

Beach shops now fill the front garden, and there is a car park in the café garden.

On the beach there was a children's boating pool, and the Pier had a bar and an amusement palace on it. The Pier was built to accommodate the crowds, and was really two piers next to each other.

People do not dress up in their finest clothes for the beach nowadays, but one thing that has not changed is the fact that entertainments then, as now, would have you dipping into your purse.

People do not dress up in their finest clothes for the beach nowadays, but one thing that has not changed is the fact that entertainments then, as now, would have you dipping into your purse.

first bridge here dated from 1855, when local worthy Mrs Cornish allowed its construction at a cost of £26 10s using timbers taken from the sailing vessel Laurel, which had been wrecked on Sidmouth Beach

The picture shows a typical summer's day on east beach, with children building sandcastles or digging for creatures, treasures, or whatever their imagination desires.

By 1965, Pentraeth was a village that began to owe much to tourism, as the beach ware on sale at the shop on the right shows.

It was known for its pleasure beach, and before the days of the scenic railway visitors could get a bird's eye view of the town from the Revolving Tower (left).

The beaches, caves and rock pools around Castle Hill and especially St Catherine's Island have been a favourite haunt of the serious and amateur naturalist for gen- erations.

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

Coney Beach funfair was built in 1920 on an old ballast tip. The first ride was a figure-of-eight ride, housed in two First World War hangers.

fishing boats pictured here, it was also a popular destination for the Victorian paddle steamers from nearby Weymouth, which had specially strengthened bows to enable the vessel to be run up onto the beach

Blessed with a long sandy beach, Gorleston has retained a distinct character of its own.

One of these very similar views shows the town on a bright summer day with the road thronged with vehicles and the pavements, benches and sea wall busy with visitors enjoying the Cheshire sunshine and

This dramatic view from the sea is a common but welcome sight to seafarers, especially to lobster and crab fishermen, who congregate at this part of East Beach - it has a slipway.