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The picture shows the glass and cast-iron winter gardens built on the back of the Library and Museum. This ornate structure was destroyed by enemy bombing during the Second World War.

Late morning concerts were held both at the Crescent and the Winter Gardens.

This picture shows the glass and cast-iron winter gardens built on the back of the Library and Museum. This ornate structure was destroyed by enemy bombing during the Second World War.

The 20th century, however, saw the oysters blighted by disease, floods and harsh winters, and the industry finally petered out in the 1970s.

Late morning concerts were held both at the Crescent and the Winter Gardens.

The year this picture was taken a cruel winter was about to strike, leaving many new owners of a motor car relying on horses to pull them free from snow-laden roads.

Another popular place in the winter months was George Scott's blacksmiths shop. The forge lit up the whole street at night-time.

Lower Slaughter is best visited on a crisp winter's day, when the stream is full and the houses stand clear against the morning sun.

The street is almost deserted apart from a motor lorry, motorcycle and a few pedestrians, showing that the photograph was probably taken in the winter, outside the tourist season.

A pavilion and winter garden was added to the pier's centre in 1910. The theatre was dismantled in 1986, but was not replaced as had been planned.

This would have been dusty in summer and a quagmire in winter, especially with the heavy horse-drawn traffic that would have moved up and down this street to load and unload the vessels moored along the

A change in sea level and erosion have combined to produce a fascinating effect off this beach, as documented by Giraldus Cambrensis: 'We then passed over Niwegal sands, at which place (during the winter

A good example of the ferocity of winter storms was in 1990, when waves were breaking over the 70-foot tower of the Bickford Smith Institute in the background.

It was the first outlet for fun following the long winter after Christmas festivities. In 1906 it was recorded that thousands came from Burnley and Padiham besides Clitheroe.

With few frosts and plenty of fresh air, it became a fashionable wintering place, especially for convalescents and invalids.

The Winter Garden for the patients contained tropical plants and trees.

Among later visitors to the village was Robert Louis Stevenson—while spending a winter here he wrote 'Treasure Island'.

Here we have a fine view over the Winter Gardens, an indoor facility for tourists.

The isolated village of Skinningrove lies behind the camera – it is a community used to hardships and exposed to fierce winter weather.

The coastline is still being eroded, and as each winter storm breaches the vulnerable unprotected beach, the sea threatens to make Selsey an island again.

Winter skaters used to risk their lives on the thin ice, and fishing from the bridge has long been a popular activity here.

Then there were the much smaller double-ended open boats known as fifie yawls, which were employed for haddock lining in winter and spring.

During a storm in the winter of 1978-9, waves were breaking over the tops of the houses.

Many of the terraces would have been built by local speculators as lodgings for visitors - the mildness and salubriousness of the climate made the town popular as a winter residence.