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This view, with well-clad visitors strolling along the beach and sailing boats drawn up on the shore, shows a south coast beach before development and formalisation changed its character.

The beach is seen at low tide, with dramatic crumbling cliffs towering up behind.

The sand dunes and beach make Greatstone the ideal place for families. It has safe bathing and plenty of space for ball games.

This panoramic view of Porthminster beach and St Ives was taken from near the local coastguard station. On the left of the picture pilchard boats can be seen drawn up at the top of the beach.

This view shows the beach complete with bathing tents.

The Island stands at the western end of Porthmeor Beach, visible behind the ruined mine building.

These colourful beach huts provide a place to change into swimwear or to have a welcome brew-up of tea.

Apart from the clothes that these three youngsters are wearing on the beach, little has changed here.

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.

As at Clovelly, donkeys were much in use here, ferrying herrings and lime from the kiln (centre) up the hill.

Beside Beach Villa with the Metropole just behind, the new cliff lift was in process of being constructed; it was eventually to make access to and from the beach much simpler.

In the background are two liquid china clay storage tanks.

Chesil Beach is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.The stones tend to be larger at one end of the beach than the other.

From the bottom of Valley Road the camera captures a crowded South Beach scene, and a bay full of sail-driven fishing boats.

The line of beach-huts makes a striking background to this picture of a father and son sea fishing from the pebbly beach.

This photograph was taken from Gyllyngvase Beach. In the middle distance is Swanpool Point; hidden beyond it is Swanpool Beach, another favoured smuggling spot.

The little valley of Trenarren reaches the coast just to the west of Black Head, and the stream cascades over the cliff onto the beach.

This view of East Cliff, with well-clad visitors strolling along the beach, and sailing boats drawn up on the shore, shows a south coast beach before development and formalisation changed its character

Highcliffe was well and truly within the county of Hampshire until the latter half of the 20th century, and it remains close to the Hampshire border.

Paddling in streams and pools on the beach was popular in Victorian times. Note the hats and long dresses.

The concrete slipway is for fishing boats, which are dragged to the water by the tank-like vehicle.

This view shows Carbis Bay when it was still largely undeveloped, with just a scattering of houses above the cliffs overlooking the sandy beach.

Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey. Once a fashionable beach accessory, they are seldom seen today, so perhaps it was windier in the Fifties!

Close to the point where the cliffs begin to rise from the beach at Southwold is the Sailor's Reading Room.