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Another delightful view of the Cat Nab area of Saltburn, with the distinctive profile of Huntcliffe beyond.

Amroth is a former coal mining village at the southerly end of the 186 mile-long Pembrokeshire Coast Path.

The Frith archive contains a number of these posed group pictures; the majority seem to have been taken during the 1890s.

A family walk down Magazine Lane Slipway onto the beach. This is close to the site of the magazines: ships entering the Mersey had to deposit any gunpowder there during their stay in port.

This bustling scene looks east to the pier pavilion and the pier. The bucket and spades, bare feet, donkeys and wickerwork basket chairs recapture a vanished era.

Anstey's Cove, with Redgate Beach hidden on the left, was a favourite bathing spot for Agatha Christie, who was born in Torquay in 1890.

Traditionally in the ownership of wealthy occupants, the private steps leading down to the beach still belong to these houses, except those on the extreme left.

The largest seaside town in West Sussex, Worthing began to grow as a fashionable resort towards the end of the 18th century.

A hugely expansive beach here means that it never fills up with holidaymakers in this popular resort and former fishing and trading port.

Posed on Goscar Rock on Tenby's North Beach, these women were paid for their work as models.

Skegness's most famous fairground ride was the Figure Eight, which was regarded as a worthy rival to Coney Island!

The sands, which are extensive enough to give the full benefit of ozone to those who avail themselves of its health-giving properties, form an excellent bathing-ground, entirely free from danger.

By the 1960s, more and more holiday visitors were arriving by car as well as by rail.

Hunstanton is unique for north Norfolk resort towns in that it looks west across the sea and not east.

Oh, we do like to be beside the seaside! These sunseekers are thoroughly enjoying a paddle in the Channel.

This is a fine view of the 'lost beach' of Gorleston, so named because after years of erosion it has been reduced to a fraction of the size we see here.

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

Once a sleepy Devon backwater, Croyde's beach and bay was discovered by holidaymakers in the 19th century. With two huge caravan parks, this area fills up dramatically in the short summer season.

The unmade road leads from the village to the beach. The sand-dunes are covered with marram grass, which helps knit them together and prevent erosion on this windy coast.

From the beginning of the 19th century most resorts had bathing machines in which bathers could change while being dragged into the sea, initially by horses and later by winches.

Blue Anchor is a hamlet in Carhampton parish, and it takes its name from the local inn. In 1874 it became a halt on the Taunton to Minehead railway line, now the privately run West Somerset Railway.

The old 'birdcage' bandstand was replaced in 1934-35 by an altogether grander affair with a seating capacity of three thousand people.

Heacham has the distinctive flat beach of this part of the West Norfolk coast.

The bathing machines are doing good business. In the 1720s, it was the custom for those 'taking the waters' to bathe in the sea.