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Train services are often suspended in winter months when things are at their worst.

The picture shows the glass and cast-iron winter gardens built on the back of the Library and Museum.

This picture shows the glass and cast-iron winter gardens built on the back of the Library and Museum.

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

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 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.

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

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

At one time sheep from Romney Marsh in Kent were wintered here on the relatively dry sandy Surrey Hills.

Lime trees (left) have been pruned into mop-head lollipops, confirming that this is a winter photo, which also explains the heavy clothing.

The church of St Mary is glorious with snowdrops in winter.

This nutrient-rich harvest would provide winter fodder for these hard-working draught animals and others in the months ahead.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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