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The pier was essential for the recreation of Edwardian visitors to this part of the seaside.

The coming of the railway to Grange-over-Sands in 1857 signalled the town's rapid expansion as a seaside resort for visitors from the industrial mill towns of Lancashire.

This used to be the most genteel of the Yorkshire seaside resorts, a view that is exemplified by the promenading of the nouveau riche in this 1920s photograph.

Past the Georgian remains of Sea Houses, at the junction of Royal Parade with Seaside, is the flamboyant Albion Hotel, now renamed the Carlton Hotel, its red brick all colour- washed.

This was a typical Devon seaside community where smuggling was endemic.

As with so many seaside resorts of the 19th century, Bournemouth attracted a wealthy and fashionable clientele.

An old guidebook stressed the benefits to health of a holiday in Weymouth: 'Weymouth is much more open than the majority of seaside resorts, and is almost surrounded by salt water.

At the turn of the century, Felixstowe was at the height of its popularity as a seaside resort, with its south-facing beach.

Like so many seaside resorts of the 19th century, Bournemouth attracted a wealthy clientele who built villas for semi-permanent and permanent occupation.

Donkey rides on the sands were a regular feature of seaside holidays in the 20th century, though the animals were eventually spared the burden of carrying overweight adults like the gentleman

What a typically English seaside scene.

Part of the 'Cliftonville' area, these smart terraces housed the wealthy colonels, surgeons and Indian Army officers who retired to the seaside here.

As with many Victorian seaside resorts, Saltburn boasted elaborate, well kept, (and labour intensive) public gardens, as seen here in the Italian Gardens.

Askam had an ironworks, and two mines, both of which closed in the 1890s; at that time, it attempted to attract seaside visitors.

This is a marvellously evocative scene, with everything going on that one might expect in a seaside resort.

You would not imagine from this picture that this area is dominated by caravans and seaside souvenir shops.

Although Wells is a natural seaside resort with a soft sandy beach and shallow sea for bathing, the lookout and lifeboat station in the background mark the possibility of dangers, particularly for those

Frinton was designed and laid out in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Richard Powell-Cooper as a 'select' seaside resort, full of peace and tranquillity, in direct contrast to brash, noisy

An impromptu game of football takes place in the shadow of a traditional seaside funfair, as holidaymakers stroll along the Esplanade.

With deck chairs, buckets, spades and ball, everything is set for an ideal day at the seaside.

This family seem determined to make the most of their time at the seaside and contemplate the sea.

This pleasant stone-built Victorian seaside resort clusters beneath the steep craggy slopes of the coastal mountains on Conwy Bay, and looks across the broad eastern approaches of the Menai Strait to Anglesey

Clacton-on-Sea was founded as a seaside resort in 1871—the year that the Bank Holiday Act was passed.This view shows the ever popular bandstand and the pier, built in 1873 and lengthened in the

Canvas-sailed boats are tied up at the pier; this was the time when Grange was becoming a popular seaside resort, famed as an escape from industrial Lancashire and for its bracing air and equable climate