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The photographer has moved in closer to the beach to take this picture, although still concentrating on the same area as the former one.The Shrubbery Gardens, above the sun shelter, are well used

The timber-framed Tudor Moot Hall is situated next to the beach.

The 'togetherness' of these Margate beach crowds was legendary; the whole beach was once heard to erupt into song:'Yes, we have no bananas …'

The 'Droch' or Cave of Beauty is regarded as the finest at Lydstep Cavern Beach.

This photograph was taken from Gyllyngvase Beach.

The line of beach-huts makes a striking background to this picture of a father and son sea fishing from the pebbly beach.

This view of East Cliff, with well-clad visitors strolling along the beach, and sailing boats drawn up on the shore, shows a south coast beach before development and formalisation changed its character

As the beach huts suggest, its long beach is popular with bathers and promenaders.

The little valley of Trenarren reaches the coast just to the west of Black Head, and the stream cascades over the cliff onto the beach.

Sidmouth's pebbly beach has never deterred sea bathers and paddlers, though building sandcastles was a harder task.

During the first quarter of the 20th century Worthing's beach was very popular with visitors and inhabitants alike.

Wildersmouth Bay was the original bathing beach of the town; those beaches to the west only became accessible after the drafting in of Welsh miners to dig the tunnels by which they are now reached.

Then, as now, the beach was popular with children, who here play at the water's edge whilst older boys admire the moored fishing boat.

Studland has one of the best and least tampered-with beaches in Dorset - a real reminder of those halcyon days when such luminaries as George III promoted the merits of sea bathing.

Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey.

Still a popular beach today, particularly with locals, the Pebble Ridge is a long low expanse protecting the entrance to the Taw and Torridge estuary.

Outdoor holidays are being pioneered here, with just a few tents and caravans on the edge of the beach at Sconhoe Farm.

Many a local will remember learning to drive for the first time on this huge beach near Porthmadog, although summer access is now a little more restricted than we see here.

Cadgwith is an important fishing cove, especially for shellfish; boats are hauled up the beach – there is no quay.

'Tommy's Pit', built at the end of the breakwater, was strictly men only, while women used Crooklets beach, then named Maer Beach.

These boats up on the pink shingle beach are probably rowing boats for hire - they were painted red, white and blue.

At low tide Porth Beach becomes a sandy inlet on the east side of Newquay, but here the tide is in, with Porth Island and Trevelgue Head seen across the water.

Few people can now remember how crowded the beach became on a warm summer day - the scenes here were comparable with Blackpool Beach.

The people flocked back to the beach after wartime defences had been cleared.