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Aerial view of the beach and sea front, Pesaro, Italy. Date: 1930s
Birthday card, Today You Are 2, Children on a beach. 20th century
Harbour from Rock Walk, and Corbyns Head, Torquay, Devon. 1912
South Parade and beach, Southsea, Hampshire. 1923
People on the beach, Great Yarmouth, NorfolkPeople on the beach at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. 1900
WWII September 1939 Holiday makers filling sandbagsHoliday makers filling sandbags at a beach on the East Coast of Britain in the week following the declaration of war in September 1939. Date: 1939
Family of three on a tandem -- father, mother and little boy sitting in a seat attached to the back. Date: circa 1980s
Beach scene at Colwyn Bay, North Wales, with people, boats and bathing huts. circa 1889
People on the beach at Colwyn Bay, North Wales, with bathing huts in the background. Date: circa 1889
People on the beach at Seaside, Oregon, USA. Date: circa 1920
El Cordova Hotel and Apartments, Coronado, California, USA. Date: 1942
General Store, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, with holiday chalets alongside. Date: circa 1900s
Poster, Save your happy memories with a Kodak. circa 1920
King Edward VIII at Calais StationKing Edward VIII (1894-1972) at Calais Station, where he boarded the Orient Express en route for Sibenik, Yugoslavia to join the yacht Nahlin in which he was to cruise along the Dalmatian coast
Comic postcard, About 90 in the Shade. Date: circa 1910
Family group at seaside, 1920sFamily group photograph at the seaside. An older couple sit on deckchairs with two girls in matching hats and swim suits, the adults smiling whilst the children look less sure theyre enjoying
Art Deco touristAn elegant woman with luggage. Date: c.1929
Woman sunbathing underneath a parasol on the beachA woman sunbathing on an unidentified beach, with a parasol offering some protection. Date: 1920s
Family on holiday, 1930sA family relaxing on the beach at an unidentified seaside resort. Behind them, can be seen the backs of other people lined up on benches along a promenade. Date: 1930s
Family on the beach at Weston-super-MareA father with his trousers rolled up paddles in the sea and supervises a small child who is busy digging in the sand in front of the Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare. Date: c.1930
Lady in a deckchair on the beachA woman called June looking very comfortable and organised in a deckchair on an unidentified beach. Date: 1930
Family group on the beach at RamsgateA family on the beach at Ramsgate. Little girls are busy digging themselves into holes in the sand while relatives make themselves comfortable on deckchairs
Jolly crowd in the seaA jolly crowd of bathers wave at the camera as they stand in the sea at an unidentified seaside resort. Date: 1920s
Little girl playing on the beachA little girl playing on the beach at an unidentified but fairly remote looking seaside location, c. 1910s/20s. Date: 1910s-20s
Cartoon, A hint for the seaside, no bathing machine required (just a wide crinoline). 1857
The Taverna of the Excelsior Palace, Venice LidoLuncheon at the Taverna restaurant of the Excelsior Palace Hotel at the fashionable Venice Lido. Diners were encouraged to visit the Taverna in their swimwear or beach pyjamas
Promenade and beach at Llandudno, North Wales. 1930s
Impromptu dance to gramophone at river resortImpromptu dance to the gramophone at a river resort. Date: 1933
Royal Princess Parade and Floral Hall, Bridlington, North Yorkshire, summer 1931. 1931
Illustration, The Smugglers Cave. late 19th century
Illustration, The Rescue. late 19th century
Cartoon, Gaieties of Greenwich Fair. 19th century
Bar Basque at Biarritz, 1934Bar Basque, the rendezvous at which " everyone" who visits Biarritz turns up in the course of the day for an aperitif! Date: 1934
Gladys Cooper and children at Frinton on SeaActress Gladys Cooper on the beach at Frinton-on-Sea on the Essex coast where she had a holiday home with her children Joan and John Buckmaster. Date: 1927
Miss S. T. Phillips playing tennis at the Venice LidoKeeping cool in the lawn tennis court: Miss S. T. Phillips has a game in her bathing suit. Those staying at the Venice Lido regularly went from beach to tennis court in their bathing suit. Date: 1927
Margaret Whigham with Marquess of Donegall at St. MoritzMiss Margaret Whigham, later Mrs Charles Sweeny and then Duchess of Argyll, pictured at St. Moritz with the Marquess of Donegall (Edward Chichester) in the year she was presented at court. 1930
Cocktail time at Cap d Antibes, Marquise de Casa MauryEnjoying cocktails at Cap D Antibes - the Marquise de Casa Maury, formerly Miss Paula Gellibrand, seated at a beach side cafÚáÀith a friend
Oswald and Cynthia Mosley on hoilday in VeniceOswald Mosley and his first wife, the former Lady Cynthia Curzon, in a gondola on the Grand Canal in Venice, accompanied by Mr E. V. Strachey. Date: 1925
Mrs Ingram (Dorothy Caruso) on the Venice Lido beachDorothy Caruso, widow of the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, pictured on the beach at the Venice Lido with her second husband, Captain Ernest Ingram and her children
Cairo Characters, ministers to the travellers comfortSketches of the types a traveller to Cairo might meet during his stay. Top left, a page boy, top right, a porter, centre, the dragomans (guides)
Sunbathers at Eden RocSunbathers at the famous Eden Roc, Antibes on the French Riviera, an exclusive resort catering to sun worshippers who lay out on the famous orange mattresses. Date: 1930
Sun worshippers at Eden Roc at Cap D Antibes on the French Riviera. A favourite rendezvous of wealthy Brits during the inter-war years when tanning became ultra-fashionable. 1930
Picknickers at the fences at Aintree - Grand NationalThe Grand National Steeplechase being over, the public at once invade that part of the course that is out in the country. They utilise the jumps
View of the pier and promenade, Eastbourne, Sussex. circa 1910s
Bandstand, Western Lawns, Hove, SussexBand in the bandstand, Western Lawns, Hove, Sussex. Date: circa 1915
Palace Pier at night, Brighton, Sussex. Date: circa 1915
Coastal erosion, Black Rock, Brighton, Sussex, with tourists standing on the ledge. Date: circa 1912
Hotel Metropole, Kings Road, Brighton, SussexHotel Metropole, Kings Road (looking east), Brighton, Sussex. Date: 1910s