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The Strand was named in 1924, extended in 1930, and throughout the 1950s and 1960s, summer found the foreshore as crowded as any seaside beach.

The breakwaters have gone and the sea wall has been rebuilt, but most of the beach huts remain, with quaint names like Dolly's Den, Molly's and Sand Lea.

This scene is characteristic of the North Norfolk coast: the walls and houses are built of whole flints found in the fields or on the nearby beach.

The small beach to the left is at Prechers Rock.

Children playing on boats and beach evoke a scene typical of the fascination of British people with maritime matters from an early age.

Here we see the bare central beach of a century ago, with no Embassy Centre, fairground car park, Marine Walk and Esplanade, shops, arcades or cafés.

Exmouth's long sea front and sandy beaches made sea-bathing a popular recreation from the town's earliest days as a resort. Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities.

Here, recently-built chalets shelter residents and visitors to the beaches, and these shops sold all the requisites, from groceries to postcards, to satisfy their needs.

A substantial shingle beach this may be, but it offers no protection to the sandy cliffs. All Saints' Church now stands at the edge, soon to join the lost medieval town in a watery grave.

At one stage the residents of Benthills enjoyed exclusive use of the beach area in front of their houses - 'The Benthills Enclosure'.

More Americans died training here than were killed on Utah Beach on D-Day.

The erection of iron railings by the Windsor Estate to enclose and prevent access to the beach except by gates is already under way.

These stages had to be manhandled up and down the beach as the tide went out and came in.

In late Victorian tour guides, Clevedon was noted for its good beach, its pier, and the surrounding countryside, which was considered to be exceptionally beautiful.

The Newlyn School numbered among its luminaries Henry Scott Tuke, Edwin Harris and William Wainwright, but the leading light was undoubtedly Stanhope Forbes, whose masterpiece 'Fish Sale on Newlyn Beach

Redcar's popularity for the past 150 years has largely depended upon the attractions of the sea and the beach. A group of roundabouts and swings offers entertainment for the children.

The whitewashed Fore Street Methodist chapel is to the right, likewise built onto the harbour beach.

Extensive and beautiful sandy beaches brought ever- increasing numbers of visitors to the North Wales coast.

It is rumoured that the young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret once stayed at the summerhouse he built for his wife above the beach.

Church Cove was a pilchard fishing place, with boats hauled up the steep beach, and there was also a lifeboat station here for a while until 1899.

The tramway offered holiday-makers an alternative means of escape from the beach to the Esplanade, other than by the 224 steps cutting through the Spa Gardens, and all for just 1d.

Margate is today a bustling seaside resort on the Isle of Thanet, with many miles of sandy beaches, and typical seaside attractions.

Its unspoilt beach, fine coastal vistas and village atmosphere drew the more discerning visitor.

Trading schooners are beached, waiting for their cargo to be taken ashore by horse and cart.