Check out these brilliant retro pictures of beachgoers enjoying plenty of fun on the beaches of Sussex - including Hastings, Worthing, Bognor Regis, Eastbourne, Littlehampton and Brighton - over 100 years ago
Stephen Thirkill
·3-min read
March 1929: A couple of young women playing leap frog on the beach at Hove. (Photo: Fox Photos)
It doesn’t matter what the season, or even year is, we all love to be beside the seaside.
The calming noise of the sea waves, the fresh air and seaside smells . . .just thinking about it conjures up magical memories for us all.
And in this retro gallery we take a look back down the decades of beachgoers having plenty of fun around the Sussex coast, with plenty of pictures going back more than 100 years.
Two young girls on Brighton beach about to have a cigarette. (Photo: General Photographic Agency)
Beaches pictures include Hastings, Eastbourne, Worthing, Bognor Regis, Littlehampton and Brighton.
If you would like to share your memories of the beach, email stephen.thirkill@nationalworld.com
You can see plenty more retro galleries of life in Sussex, here.
The Brighton Marine Palace and Pier in Brighton circa 1910. (Photo: London Stereoscopic Company)
Alex Ogilvie's Wright flying machine perched on a slope ready for the launch at Camber Sands. (Photo: Topical Press Agency)
A few people venture into the sea, but most stay safely on the beach at Brighton. The picture was taken in 1915 as WW1 rages not so far away across the sea. (Photo: General Photographic Agency)
September 1919: Bathers play ball on Brighton beach. (Photo: Kitching:f)
27th June 1922: American dancer Madge Nerrit (centre) during a dance in her honour by a group of Tiller Girls on the beach at Brighton.
Factory workers from Ticklers' jam factory, having fun on the beach at Hastings. (Photo: Topical Press Agency)
September 1923: Fun and games on the beach at Hastings during an outing from Ticklers' jam factory, (Photo: Topical Press Agency:D)
A group of workers from Tickler's Jam Factory paddling in the sea during an outing to Hastings. (Photo: Topical Press Agency)
Holidaymakers on the beach at Brighton, circa 1925. (Photo: General Photographic Agency)
A woman sitting in a lifebelt enjoys the lapping of the waves on Littlehampton beach, circa 1925. (Photo: F. J. Mortimer)
16th April 1927: A male bather carries a female friend over the shingle on the beach at Brighton. (Photo: Davis)
16th April 1927: Two young men helping a woman across the shingle on the beach at Brighton during the Easter Holiday. (Photo: Davis:f)
10th March 1929: Young girls waving from the water's edge on Brighton beach. (Photo: H. F. Davis)
March 1929: A couple of young women playing leap frog on the beach at Hove. (Photo: Fox Photos)
June 1929: Girls riding a pony on the beach at Hastings. (Photo: Fox Photos)
Fred Montague and his family at Littlehampton in August 1929. (Photo: Fox Photos)
Fred Montague and his family enjoy the beach. (Photo: Fox Photos)
Fred Montague and his family at the West Sussex seaside resort of Littlehampton in 1929. (Photo: Fox Photos:f)
Young holidaymakers playing ball on the beach at Eastbourne in 1930 (Photo: Topical Press Agency:f)
English boxer Teddy Baldock sparring with fellow boxers Jim Briley and Sid Raiteri on the beach at Brighton on 10th January 1930. (Photo: J. Gaiger)
Day trippers give the bumps to the birthday girl at Brighton seaside resort on 5th June 1930. (Photo: Fox Photos)
Holidaymakers on the beach at Eastbourne, listening to their gramophone in the July sunshine in 1930. (Photo: W. G. Phillips)
Five happy bathers doing the 'splits' in the sea at Eastbourne on 9th August 1930. (Photo: W. G. Phillips)
Dancing school pupils practice en plein air at Worthing in May 1933. (Photo: Fox Photos:f)
2nd August 1933: Holiday makers exercising on Brighton beach. (Photo: Fred Morley:f)
7th August 1933: A view from the pier at Bognor Regis during a heatwave showing the crowded beach . (Photo: Topical Press Agency)
Katya Jones has broken her social media silence following her shock elimination from Strictly Come Dancing with Casualty star Nigel Harman after the actor sustained an injury
A newlywed on her honeymoon in The Bahamas was killed by a large shark while paddleboarding in the water near the five-star resort where she was staying.
Jennifer Gomez was in prison between 2011 and 2020 for burglary. She told her TikTok followers some of the things she used to look for to see whether a house would be profitable to hit.
(Bloomberg) -- The worsening bottlenecks at the drought-stricken Panama Canal are pushing at least one US diesel shipper to sail around the tip of South America en route to Chile for the first time since 2020.Most Read from BloombergHow Suspects Laundered Billions in Singapore for YearsHarvard Alumni Rebuke Its Israel Response With Mere $1 DonationsBitcoin Surges Past $42,000 Even as Stocks and Bonds Take a HitStocks Mixed on China Concern, Dovish ECB Comments: Markets WrapIsrael’s Wider War Has
Yahoo News 
