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While most people imagine lifeboats generally to be launched from slipways, Aldeburgh lifeboats such as the 'Winchester' have always been launched straight from the shingle beach.

Boat trips off Paignton beach gave toddlers much fun walking along the landing stages.

The West Pentire Hotel is a conspicuous landmark in this otherwise bleak view across fields to the sea beyond Crantock Beach, with East Pentire Point on the right.

Because of the unstable nature of the cliffs above Bournemouth's beaches, many of the buildings were built at a distance from the cliff edge.

A good study of a 1950s beach. There are no shadows, and most of the holidaymakers are well wrapped up. The chap in the braces (left) does not look particularly warm.

The less energetic can laze on a deckchair, hire a beach hut and watch the world go by.

A few bathing machines survive amongst the beach huts and changing tents.

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

A family of youngsters enjoy a spot of shrimping on the beach. On the skyline in the background is the parish church of the Holy Trinity, consecrated just 40 years earlier in 1853.

During the last half of the 20th century the beach at Charmouth became a mecca for the fossil hunter.

East Runton offered visitors the same spectacular cliff scenery and ample beaches as its close neighbour, Cromer, but less of the noise and bustle.

A cliff railway toils up and down the cliffside to help the bather gain access to the many miles of beach between Sandbanks and Hengistbury Head.

The lane from Port Isaac descends the cliffside to its neighbouring harbour, also once important for fishing, and a place where sailing vessels were beached to be loaded with Delabole slates.

Heavy surf on the beach at Porthtowan is not the place for smaller children, so this artificial pool was made among the rocks as a place for safe bathing. The water is refreshed at every high tide.

At the beginning of the last millennium, marauding Danes landed on these sandy beaches and put the village of Exmouth to fire and sword.

Its own beach is sandless and full of large pebbles, which seem to sing as the tides play across them. It gets its name from the salterns, or salt pans, used by the monks of nearby Otterton Priory.

This beach is far less crowded than those shown in the 1950s, the Indian Summer of the British seaside town.

Here we see St Mildred's Hotel and the beach, with Victorian ladies and children at play. Note the picnic hamper on the right.

A father and his son seem to be skimming stones in the right foreground on the beach, which probably marks the spot where the 'full ford' of the village's name once existed.

Plymouth never quite achieved the status of being a major seaside resort, though tourists have always bathed from its beaches and promenaded across the famous Hoe.

Very few parts of the town are far from the beach.

Plymouth never quite achieved the status of being a major seaside resort, though tourists have always bathed from its beaches and promenaded across the famous Hoe.

A row of white beach huts trims the foot of the cliffs like a cuff. In the distance is Cromer pier.

The village becomes busy in the summer with visitors seeking Crantock Beach, which is a short distance away.