We step back to a distant, idyllic age - but a familiar location.
Summer seems a long way off, but our main image shows The Sands at Whitley Bay on a glorious day in 1910.
Little did the folk relaxing on the sun-drenched beach know what awaited them four years later when the world would be plunged into the Great War.
But here, in the last year of the Edwardian age, Britain was enjoying a calm before the storm.
At Whitley Bay Sands, the incline leading down to the beach from the Promenade was known as Gregg’s Slope.
In the distance the helter-skelter is visible beyond a row of bathing machines.
These were introduced in 1870 to protect the modesty of bathers and were somewhere people could get changed before stepping into the ice-cold North Sea.
This was an age, of course, when a glimpse of any flesh, let alone topless bathing, would have been unthinkably scandalous.
The pictures here are from the book Whitley Bay and Seaton Sluice Through Time, by Ken Hutchinson. Amberley Publishing.