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This earlier picture appears to have an open space where the Silver Dollar was later built. The neat chalets on the sea front have long gone.

Par Beach is seen at low tide with the china clay port of Par in the background.

The beach at Charmouth is a mecca for geologists and fossil hunters, and explanatory walks take place from the heritage centre by the mouth of the Char.

This row of diminutive, white cottages provided accommodation for the Coastguards maintaining a watch along this busy stretch of the Kent coastline with its treacherous offshore sandbanks.

'Quick Mum, get the ice cream whilst there's no queue!' The much loved and heavily patronised refreshment kiosk was an obligatory port of call for all families enjoying a day out at the beach.

This shows a quiet day at Barry beach, with the only sign of life a rowing boat with its landing ramp.

This view of the Glen was taken from St Bride's Hill. It is possible to reach the Glen Beach from just below the row of houses.

Set where the old county of Westmorland reaches down to the sea, this bracing small seaside resort and ship-building port enjoys splendid views of the fells at its back.

Weymouth's beach has gently sloping sands and is mostly sheltered from the storms and swells of the English Channel, making it suitable for the youngest and most inexperienced of bathers.

This shows the view from the Cobb hamlet to the original eastern cube-like core of the Bay Private Hotel (centre). Beyond are Madeira Cottage and the Assembly Rooms (centre right).

To the north beyond Ingoldmells, and rather more genteel, is Chapel St Leonards, where my mother used to holiday in the 1930s.

Large cargo ships standing off the mouth of the River Tees are still a familiar sight today.

Away from the bright lights and entertainments of its main resorts, Lancashire's coast has many other fine stretches of expansive beach.

In the 17th century, Swanbridge was one of the numerous small ports dotted around the Glamorgan coast shipping goods to Uphill and Bristol.

A magician entertains a crowd of well dressed Victorian holidaymakers on the beach.

The Walls ice-cream delivery van (bottom left) is beside beach kiosks and a 1910-built shelter, to which a clock was added in 1953, to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Small fishing boats are drawn up on the beach, a ramp climbs past the fish cellar, and on the extreme left we can just see an arched incline to a limekiln which was in use from at least 1835

In the year King Edward VII cut a ribbon to launch London's first electric trams, this small town by the sea still used horses to pull its passenger-laden vehicles.

This photograph shows Marine Parade and its beach- tents, between Langmoor Gardens (top left) and the 1922-built Bay Private Hotel (centre).

Although best known for its pebbled surface, low tide exposes a fair stretch of sand on Penarth Beach.

Between Whitstable and Herne Bay, this modern residential suburb and resort, with its grassy cliff-top promenade and shingle beach, was developed mainly in the years following the Second World War.

Upwey has been a popular excursion for visitors from Weymouth for most of the history of that resort.

Although there is no evidence of habitation here before the 17th century, this windswept north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey has since enjoyed a measure of success as a seaside resort as a result

The railway reached the fishing hamlet of Sheringham ten years after it reached Cromer, Sheringham's close neighbour.