▲Holidaymakers play on The Sands at Egremont, Cheshire, circa 1910.

▲People by the sea at Eastbourne, circa 1900.

▲East Cliff and South Foreland in Dover, circa 1895.

▲Bathers play ball on Brighton Beach, 1919.

▲A family gathers under the pier on a pebbly beach, 1929.

▲Bathing machines lined up on the beach in front of the North Pier, circa 1900.

▲A view from the pier at Southend-on-Sea, 1910.

▲Families enjoy the beach with the North Pier visible in the background, circa 1903.

▲Eva Honey fishing at the pier during the Southend Angling Festival, September 1923.

▲Deck chairs on Brighton Beach, 1930.

▲Sandown Pier on the Isle of Wight, circa 1920.

▲Paddlers and bathers on the beach at Whitby, June 1913

▲The world's youngest diver preparing to dive in order to reprieve the West Pier in Brighton, 1927.

▲A photographer takes portraits, June 1905.

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A woman sitting on a fence above the pier at Plymouth, Devon, September 1925.

▲Girls try out a new surf boat, 1929.

▲The pierhead at Bournemouth, 1928.

▲A group of girls play tug-o-war in the sea next to the pier at Clacton, 1933.

▲Audrey Hyams, aged three, is the youngest competitor in the Children's Angling Festival at Worthing, 1932.

▲Friends relax on the seafront at Margate in Kent, 1930.

▲A musical troupe entertains the holidaymakers under Margate Pier, circa 1860.

▲The Sands at Ramsgate, Kent, 1878.

▲Holidaymakers on the sea front at Eastbourne, East Sussex, circa 1895.

▲The West Pier, circa 1870.

▲Eastbourne Pier in Eastbourne, East Sussex, circa 1885.

▲Holidaymakers on the promenade at Clacton, Essex, with the pier in the background, 1923.

▲Holidaymakers at the beach at Hunstanton, Norfolk, with the pier in the background, 1923.

▲The sea front of Southwold in Suffolk, circa 1920.

▲A girl prepares to take the plunge during a heatwave in Brighton, 1929.

▲Holidaymakers on the beach at Clacton, Essex, circa 1925.

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