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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.

This bay is typical of a number along the coast of Ceredigion. Deeply inset, it provided shelter for loading and discharging cargoes, including herring, and for the 11 ships that were built here.

Horses tread the tramway along Pwllheli's busy promenade at Marian-y-mor (then known as West End). The tramway had opened two years earlier, in 1896, and was closed in 1927.

The elegant brick railway station is at the far end, and the Grand Hotel is on the left. On the right is the Taliesin Hotel.

Church Cove is on the east side of the Lizard. 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.

The awnings are still up on the bandstand and the musicians are tuning up in readiness for the afternoon matinee. A colourful throng is being entertained by pierrots on the beach.

This view shows the fairground on Coney Beach.

This man and his best friend are sheltering from the sun on the north-facing side of this Victorian enclosure.

The tide is well and truly out in this picture, taken as the shadows lengthen on a summer evening in 1896.

In 1926, the Sands railway station closed and was converted to amusement arcades housing hundreds of slot machines; there was also a helter-skelter and a skating rink.

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.

Here the beautifully constructed Esplanade is viewed in close-up. Its creation was vital to form a refined loop around which the wealthy and fashionable could travel.

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

This road up from the beach was first started at the time that George Hudson bought the West Cliff Estate in the 1850s, and it got the name from the strategic pass important in the Afghan wars, which

Here we can see a closer view of the railway line, which runs parallel to the river virtually all the way to Carmarthen.

Portreath was a busy mining port in the 19th century, when sailing vessels loaded copper ore for the Welsh smelters and returned with coal for the mine engines.

The sandy beach is overwhelmed by a tide of holidaymakers, most of whom have probably arrived here by train at the station in the left background.

This is the chief Mersey bathing-place, which at once gains and loses by its proximity to the great commercial city of Liverpool.

Motor vehicles have mostly replaced horse-drawn carriages by the first decade after the Great War.

The Eastern Telegraph Co's large cable station was established in the valley just inland from the beach at Porthcurno, where undersea cables came ashore.

Long before the advent of mass tourism, the coastline here had been exploited as a source of income for local people.

An incredibly low ebb- tide, which would also have coincided with one of the highest tides of the century, has exposed the rock pools on Lucy's Ledge.

Douglas Head Lighthouse was erected in 1892, replacing the sixty year old Red Pier light. In 1786 Douglas harbour lighthouse had been destroyed during a storm and not rebuilt.

The castle was erected on a red sandstone spur from locally quarried limestone.