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Children play on the beach and collect flotsam from the tide line while their parents sit beside windbreaks. The roof on the fish palace has now almost completely gone.

Between the wars, Worthing lost its wonderful town hall and theatre.

The pier was designed and constructed by Mr A Dowson and opened by Lord Stanley in 1855. In 1899 the Moorish Pavilion was added, and the Floral Hall opened in 1910.

The White Horse Inn dates from 1851, and was built on land owned by William Primrose, a brewer from Trunch. Another older pub, the Fishing Boat, dates from 1840.

It is a nice sunny day; there are people about, and there is time for a leisurely chat, while some seem interested in the beach just out of shot.

The journey to Studland Bay was probably the favourite excursion for tourists from Swanage, who could either get there by walking along the cliff tops or by taking a carriage or charabanc along the

This striking view across the bay was taken from the grounds of The Kymin. The house is one of the very few left that are 'pre Esplanade', itself occupying the site of an earlier farm.

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

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.

The Great Western Railway found Newquay a small and almost inaccessible Cornish fishing village, and have transformed it into quite a fashionable seaside resort.

Deckchairs and beach tents were available for hire, and the donkeys are saddled to take different age groups.

Its church disappeared from the cliffs into the ever-encroaching sea in the reign of Richard II. Another was built, and that too was a ruin for a number of years - it has since been restored.

After the historic riches of Dunster we descend, physically as in other ways, to Blue Anchor Bay, a seaside resort with a long beach and little character.

Hopton is a diminutive village resort on the A12 just south of Great Yarmouth.

The Pleasure Gardens with their scented pines and attractively laid out grounds were popular with people of all ages, at a time when fashion and social mores decreed that the human form should remain

On the beach in the background are a number of bathing machines. Ladies wishing to bathe would enter the machines from the landward side and horses would haul the contraptions down into the water.

On the beach in the background are a number of bathing machines. Ladies wishing to bathe would enter the machines from the landward side and horses would haul the contraptions down into the water.

The pair of wooden houses were called Montpelier in 1885; the next building is of 1889, and the building partly hidden by trees was Harland House in 1885.

The South Cliff Tramway offered an alternative means of escape from the beach to the Esplanade; the other way up was by the 224 steps cutting through the Spa Gardens.

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

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.

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

Here we see another busy beach view in 'The Empress of Watering Places' with many umbrellas protecting ladies from the summer sun.

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.