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They are about to walk the plank down to the shingle beach beside the cafe (bottom left). Lulworth was a favourite stopping point on services between Weymouth and Swanage.

Concerns were aroused after a number of incidents where bowls fell over the cliff and narrowly missed people on the beach below.

Subsequent silting of the river mouth and its movement to the east thanks to a shifting shingle beach led to the decline of the port at Steyning, and the establishment of the town of New Shoreham by the

Beyond the line of bathing machines, waves crash against the beach in this turn-of-the-century photograph. Much of the town's architecture dating from this period survives today.

The inscription on the stone says that unscrupulous thieves plundered the bodies as they lay on the beach.

We view the town from the beach below the Royal Standard. The North Wall (right centre) has since been joined to the mainland (in 1979) by a random wall of rough boulders.

Note the wheeled bathing machines down by the sea, and the curious beach tents and a few deckchairs. Long skirts and parasols are the fashion for the ladies.

A steeply shelving beach on the left-hand side contrasts strongly with the gently sloping mud flats on the other side of this river.

It is afternoon milking time, judging by the shadows, at Seatown Farm in Sea Vale Lane, which leads from Chideock to a beach beside the Anchor Inn.

The low coastal cliffs below the village provided a pleasant walk above the beach. Hidden by the trees is St Peter's Church, believed to have been founded in 967.

It had its own private staircase down to the beach.

Llangranog has a small, sheltered bay with a sandy beach on which about 20 ships were built during the 19th century. Like Tresaith, it became popular with holidaymakers from the 1930s.

This scene has hardly changed for many years; the beach at Polridmouth is still only accessible on foot.

The tall building with a flag flying at the top (right) was the Beach House Temperance Hotel.

Scarborough's sandy beaches are still as popular with northern holidaymakers, who still throng to the seaside town for the donkey rides, candy floss and sticks of rock as they did 50 years ago.

To the left, overlooking the beach, stands the lifeboat station and, on the right, one of the town's two lighthouses.

The ship on the beach is typical of the two-masted coastal schooners that plied their trade in the days before motor vehicles came to be used for the moving of commodities.

The valley of the River Seaton runs inland from the beach to Hessenford.

The beach tents give the picture a period feeling. A bandstand once stood on the open area in front of the Marine Hotel.

Although Wells is a natural seaside resort with a soft sandy beach and shallow sea for bathing, the lookout and lifeboat station in the background mark the possibility of dangers, particularly for those

These dunes were banked up to stop sea encroachments, and this set of steps had to be erected to enable access to the beach.

Note the wheeled stalls on the beach, and the row of chairs all in a line.

The long promontory of Filey Brigg, part of a huge curve of cliffs, shelters this long stretch of firm beach from the worst of the north-east gales. A new parade was constructed in 1955.

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