We asked readers to send in their seaside pictures from the past. We start the selection with a picture sent in by Mollie Cassidy taken on the sands at Llandudno in 1966.

Judith Waltham: "My parents in Clacton in 1938."

Katey Adams: "This is a picture of my dad Bernard Hunt (between mother and father) and his mother Lily, father Bernard and brother Cyril taken at Blackpool in the year 1924."

Richard Jeffrey: "A crowd of people waiting to see a Punch and Judy show taken in the mid-60s."

Sue Pemberton: "This was taken in the early-60s of my family on holiday in Paignton, Devon."

Carl Moss: "Family beach holidays in the late-50s at Walton-on-the Naze from August 1958."

Chris Thomas: "On the beach known as Cold Knap in Barry, in the Vale of Glamorgan. We would be here more often than Barry Island beach, as the water tended to be cleaner."

Phyllis Gautier: "This is 1976 in Blackpool. My brother was five and I was eight."

Brenda Wordsworth: "This photo was taken at Butlins at Minehead in 1963. We were watching swimming races and I had made friends with another girl who was competing."

Karen Hamer: "My son's great-great-grandparents relaxing at Walton-on-the-Naze. Taken not long before World War II."

Jo Gascoigne: "The picture is a general beach scene in Ramsgate in the early-1900s." Send us your seaside pictures to [email protected]