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A small transom-sterned barge is beached by the slipway. This photograph is dated c1874, as the railway viaduct is seen complete in the view.

This popular seaside resort sits in a wide sweep of bay on the north coast, with wooded hills behind the promenade, which fronts miles of safe sandy beach.

As can be seen in photograph 36777, Hollingworth supported a number of hotels, one of which, the Beach, featured refreshment rooms that overhung the water and a dancing stage for 2,000 people.

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.

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

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.

Owing to flooding and coastal erosion problems, the cafe was soon to be demolished and another built in its place on high stilts, together with improved sea defences to preserve this area of the beach.

The stay of Mrs Simpson, the future wife of the Duke of Windsor, at Beach House is commemorated in the modern tea room in the old stables.

The long, sandy beach leading eastwards to Hengistbury Head began to be developed around 1870. The pier was built of iron in 1881, and measured 300 feet in length by 30 feet wide.

Hayling Island is 4 miles long and 10 square miles in all, with popular sandy beaches in the south.

Blundellsands beach forms part of the sixteen miles of sand stretching from Waterloo to Southport.

Exmouth had established a reputation of offering alternatives if wet and wild weather ruled out a day on the beach.

The old Beach Hotel seen here gave visitors good views south across The Green to the Promenade and the coastal shipping coming in and out of the harbour to the west.

The Beach 1890. The suffix 'Regis' was added to the name of this seaside town in 1929 after George V spent some weeks recuperating in the area following a major illness.

Using water ballast to operate it, it still works today, making the journey between town and beach a much easier one. The pier opened in 1869, and was originally 1500ft long.

Seine fishing boats are drawn up on Porthminster Beach (right), and an old engine house stands on Pedn Olva Point.

Only a century after its foundation, the town was already dominating the skyline and its beaches were among the most crowded on the south coast.Thomas Hardy described the town as 'Sandbourne' in his

The amusements are down on the beach, with the old museum ship on the right.

The vessel approaching the beach, probably on an excursion, is the 'Reindeer', a ferry launched in 1875 as the successor to the 18-ton 'Queen', which had run from 1860.

Seen as a ruin, looking east from the beach of Worbarrow Bay, stone-roofed Sea Cottage was the home of generations of the Miller family.

On the left are a number of shops hoping to catch the eye of the passing visitor on their way to or from the beach.

There were still substantial remains of All Saints' parish church on the cliff top above the beach tents when this photograph was taken; here we see the tower and nave.

Boats are on the Chesil Beach between Chiswell and Victoria Sqaure (top left), with Portland Harbour on the other side of the pebble bank (centre background), in a panorama north-westwards from Paradise