Seafront

Also worth a look near the seafront is the Masonic Hotel with its prominent parapet ornaments, green and orange combinations redolent of the fenders of cars of the period. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the seafront is the official Beatles Story museum; another section, a new building, is just five minutes from there in the Pier Head. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Samuel continues, "The seafront was a hive of activity but this time not from construction workers but holidaymakers spreading out their towels, swimming in the water, which is incidentally a lot warmer than that of the Spanish Costas, and even kite-surfing or riding the waves on a pedalo. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We went for a long walk with him along the seafront. ❋ Patrick Cockburn (2011)

I got up and saw her, and we walked back along the seafront without saying anything. ❋ Patrick Cockburn (2011)

The elder Hariri and 22 others were killed in a massive truck bombing on the Beirut seafront in 2005. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I stopped briefly in Brighton to check in to a hotel called the Old Ship, overlooking the seafront. ❋ Patrick Cockburn (2011)

These days, with its cosmopolitan air, boho shopping district, boutique hotels and thriving seafront, it is once again becoming a more upmarket resort for those in search of a weekend of decadence. ❋ Unknown (2011)

David Degner for The Wall Street Journal The Corniche -- the sweeping six-lane boulevard along Alexandria's long seafront -- was impassable within minutes of the announcement of Mr. Mubarak's resignation, as thousands of people poured into the streets. ❋ Unknown (2011)

One famous Margate resident, Tracey Emin, could have fun designing a neon slogan for the purpose, a good follow-up to the seafront gallery commemorating Turner which opens next year. ❋ Fiona Maddocks (2010)

Pinkie Sam Riley leads a large group of mods along Brighton seafront in the new film Brighton Rock. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On an autumn evening in 1940 one of our most secret agents was landed on the seafront at Scheveningen in the occupied Netherlands wearing full evening dress and smelling of alcohol, Hennessy XO brandy, to enhance his "party-goer image". ❋ Robert McCrum (2010)

Later I transplanted the tree to some good soil I found outside a club called Concorde 2 on the seafront. ❋ Patrick Cockburn (2011)

It was near the sea, and I would walk the whole length of the seafront, from Ramsgate to Broadstairs. ❋ Patrick Cockburn (2011)

Brighton seafront in the 60s: a place where new and old societies clashed, and the perfect setting for a cinematic reworking of Graham Greene's classic novel Brighton Rock. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Corniche, the sweeping six-lane boulevard the rims along this city's long seafront, was impassable within minutes of the announcement, that came around 6 p.m. local time, as people in the thousands poured into the streets — waving signs, hanging out car windows and dancing on the sea wall as they set off firecrackers and screamed. ❋ Marc Champion (2011)

The high points of the route and particularly Blackpool seafront were considered unsafe. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Housed in the archaeological museum on the seafront, it was excavated in 1969 by, you guessed it, a Brit: the formidable-sounding Honor Frost, who died last year, aged 92. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The kidnappers had stormed a seafront property near the Kenyan island of Lamu in the early hours of Saturday after arriving by speedboat. ❋ Unknown (2011)