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Kingsdown stands on the coast where the white cliffs of Dover give way to the extensive shingle beach that runs eastwards to Walmer & Deal. Caesar is said to have landed in this vicinity in 55BC.

Since its grounds were bisected by the redevelopment of Beach Road, the council initiated plans to purchase it in 1947.

Families are leaving the beach and strolling to the roadway, which is a short distance from the village centre.

or by taking a carriage or charabanc along the lanes, admiring the views across to Bournemouth, the Needles and the Isle of Wight as they went.The attraction of Studland is not only the splendid beach

Note the white areas on the beach - these are piles of linen from nearby hotels being aired and dried.

The building on the left is the lifeboat station, erected in 1885; it is unusual that it is set at right angles to the beach.

'Hence Rhyl has become noted for the number of children that visit it, and these little ones find an inexhaustible fund of pleasure on its beach'.

at all of this watering-place to those who have never visited it, one must mention that there are noble tree-planted streets and shady avenues, an imposing sea-front of about three miles, an excellent beach

This view shows the fairground on Coney Beach.

Alighting at the railway station, it was now possible to travel comfortably by carriage down Beach Road, admire the Esplanade, and return up Cliff Hill back to your train via Marine Parade and Plymouth

A colourful throng is being entertained by pierrots on the beach.

The shop sold postcards, and displays model yachts in the doorway for sailing on one of the pools on the beach.

They would arrive on an early ferry with their wicker baskets and 'set up shop' along the promenade or on the beach.

They appear to be deciding which way to go, as there is a choice of two esplanades: one is virtually on the beach, where dogs have total freedom, and the other is along the top of the cliffs, where

including 50 bedrooms, bedside lights in all rooms, electric fires in first-floor rooms, a tennis court, a putting green, television, a ladies' hairdressing saloon and a private path to the beach

It is a strange fact that many old laws remain on the statute books; one still standing forbids bathing on Ramsgate beach.

Fishermen's cottages indicate that inshore fishing and shrimping was a part of the scene, and there was still some golden sand on the beach.

The railway viaduct crosses the little valley behind the beach, and the station platform is just beyond. Another major engineering feat on this scenic line is the rock cutting in the far headland.

The following morning the beach and rocks were littered with wreckage and bodies.

It occupies an excellent defensive position overlooking the sea and the beach beyond, where Giraldus Cambrensis played as child.

In earlier days a beach community existed: numerous bungalows were built on the sands of the Exe estuary, particularly on the long spit of land known as Dawlish Warren, which stretches to

New Swanage (centre right) is beginning to cluster around Ulwell Road and the 1898-built Grand Hotel (centre) at the northern end of the beach.

In the happier days of the last century it opened its beaches to all, and a holiday in Bournemouth became an enduring event in many a Briton's memory.

Fishermen have to be tough, not only to ply their trade at sea, but also to have the strength to haul their heavily laden boats by hand up the steep shingle beach.