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From the entrance of the enclosed harbour, the village looks the perfect small beachside resort. Its quaint, colour-washed cottages complement the easy access to the beach.

Behind the crammed Edwardian beach, with boats launched into the millpond of a sea, most of the buildings of Grand Parade survive today, the notable exception being the small gabled house, now replaced

The timber building with steps leading down from the cliff (right) is the Pakefield lifeboat shed, which was washed away by 1905.

This unusual monument was built in 1538 by George Culmer in a bid to protect the shipyard in nearby Harbour Street.

The now-vanished Lytham Pier, built in 1864, was badly damaged by a storm on 6 October 1903. Two sand barges of 300 tons dragged their anchors, drifted and cut the pier in half.

This little group of cottages belonging to the fishermen whose boats are lined up on the foreshore, grew up around the declivity where the local stream, the Wynreford, after passing through

The rowing boats and solitary figure standing on the isolated shingle beach offer a rare glimpse of what is now part of the Army`s prohibited Lulworth Range.

Like many of the small resorts on the west coast of Wales, the largely Victorian seafront enjoys a very seasonal existence.

The Marine Lake covered what had been fifty acres of wet sand, which was one of the favourite haunts of sand yacht enthusiasts.

The small parking strip adjoining the Clock Tower contains two motor taxis, a pony trap, a landau and an open omnibus drawn by two horses happily munching away in their nosebags.

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.

This is the first view that many visitors would have had of Borth.

Aberdour in the Kingdom of Fife, lies between Burntisland and Dalgety Bay, just across the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh.

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.

The name of the town does not refer to any beach, but comes from the Old English word 'beck', meaning 'stream'. Clayhithe was the harbour of Waterbeach; the word 'hythe' means 'landing-place'.

Cromer's lifeboat has a reputation which goes far beyond its sphere of operation on the North Norfolk coast.

The wheeled bathing machines of earlier pictures have been replaced by this array of circular tents, allowing Edwardians to divest themselves in privacy.

The heart of Georgian Weymouth overlooks the sands from the Gloucester Hotel (top left) and the Royal Hotel (centre left), in a broad sweep around to the Victorian spire of St John's Church and Brunswick

A view from the west bank of the River Medway, looking to the medieval bridge and Aylesford. It is superbly proportioned, with one wide central span and three smaller arches on the approach.

Sandsend was just three miles along the sandy beach from Whitby.

Morfa Nefyn, one mile from Nefyn town, has a fine sandy beach. The headland at Porthdinllaen offered a natural anchorage, sheltered from the prevailing south-west winds.

West Dorset's medieval seamark on a conical hill above the Chesil Beach was retained after the closure of Abbotsbury Abbey in 1539, and repaired in 1742.

This well-known holiday resort, which has an excellent sandy beach, stands on the west coast of Wales at the mouth of the Mawddach estuary. Both Darwin and Ruskin enjoyed stays here.

This is another view of Lower Eype from further to the south-west, closer to the cliff above Lyme Bay, looking inland to Mount Lane and St Peter's Church (centre).