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Swings, Punch and Judy, and to the left, the Castle Coffee House Refreshment Tent, all served to attract the visitor to this seaside resort.

Swings, Punch and Judy, and to the left, the Castle Coffee House Refreshment Tent, all served to attract the visitor to this seaside resort.

The village began to expand in 1866-1867 when a local man came up with a scheme to transform it into a popular seaside resort.

The town has its share of Victorian and Edwardian hotels, but the trend has followed the pattern of many such seaside towns, in having to decide what its market was and never quite succeeding in doing

Positioned on the Firth of Clyde, this seaside resort looks across the Firth towards Kilcreggan, Loch Long and Dunoon.

No seaside resort was complete without its Victorian bandstand.

Westwards from Folkestone, and now linked to it as a suburb, Sandgate shared in the popularity of its neighbour as a seaside resort around the turn of the century.

It has since developed as a pleasant seaside resort with a lengthy sandy beach and a little harbour. It is an important market centre.

This seaside resort on the Cardigan Bay coast shelters behind its sand dunes and wide sandy beach. Its reputation as a watering-place was founded on the exceptional purity of its air and water.

Here we have an early view of Towan Beach, with everyone overdressed for the seaside. A game of tennis is in progress on a court marked out in the sand.

Westwards from Folkestone, and now linked to it as a suburb, Sandgate shared in the popularity of its neighbour as a seaside resort around the turn of the century.

This decline was foreseen, however, and plans were drawn up which would create the seaside resort we know today.

Along with Roker, Seaburn comprises what is in effect the seaside resort area of Sunderland, and there have been times when the Cat and Dog steps have positively heaved with sunbathers.

Exmouth is Devon's oldest seaside resort, and this was reflected in the construction of several early and very prominent hotels.

Moving away from the seaside, via Southend High Street, the Civic Centre is to be found in Victoria Avenue.Where once Prittlewell Church dominated the skyline now this massive Civic Centre building

The Church 1961 Heading back towards Highbridge and the end of this seaside tour, we head for East Brent on the north-east side of Brent Knoll; this is an Upper Lias limestone outlier rising steeply

Seaside and Coastal Sussex: From Bosham to Rye

There were two Littlehamptons, a busy port and fishing village about half a mile inland on the east bank of the Arun, and the seaside resort which grew up after 1800.

There were two Littlehamptons, a busy port and fishing village about half a mile inland on the east bank of the Arun, and the seaside resort which grew up after 1800.

Today, Penmaenmawr is a small, much-loved seaside resort overlooking Conwy Bay and backed by precipitous coastal mountains.

Here we have a wonderful picture of this peaceful seaside resort; the distinctive large hotel on the left is still there. Otherwise, Pegwell Bay has seen some changes.

Here the photographer looks east from the pier past the wheeled bathing machines that characterised seaside resorts until the end of the Edwardian years. Francis Frith's Sussex A Century Ago

This seaside resort and residential haven developed from the 1860s. Despite being continuous with Colwyn Bay, it preserves its own peaceful character.

The entry for Southport in one 1921 guidebook states: 'on the once lonely shore has now developed a very attrac- tive seaside-resort and residential town, whose fine streets, notably Lord Street, challenge