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The backs of the beach huts reflect many hues of colour. The houses on the hillside beyond show how near the beach is to the local community.
©Tom Jolliffe
The beach huts look at their best in the early morning. When there is no-one using them, there could be a slightly melancholy, nostalgic mood created, but in the period before the longest day, it is hard to think of anything but the promise of the summer ahead. The summer days stretch ahead like the beach huts into an endless summer.
©Tom Jolliffe
Low tide, sandy beach and beach huts along the promenade, even the odd knotted hanky; this is a popular Torbay beach but surprisingly undeveloped with cultivated and uncultivated fields behind the beach. Note the railway viaduct in the distance.
©Tony Atkin
Freshly positioned and some freshly painted beach huts line the narrow promenade at Broadsands Beach.
©Tom Jolliffe
This bench is tucked away at the far end of the beach. The beach huts along the beach front can be seen in the distance.
©Tom Jolliffe
What is it about beach huts that appeals? There is the variety of colours, each one chosen by an individual owner. One thinks of boats in a harbour and the many different cottage front doors. The beach huts colours are all on a white background which links them all. There is the humble nature of each hut, not too far distant from the makeshift allotment huts. There is their very human scale, perhaps reminiscent of "Wendy houses". In this case, there is their emptiness at this hour in the morning, allowing sheer enjoyment of their substance and appearance.
©Tom Jolliffe
Early morning sunlight makes the beach huts shine.
©Tom Jolliffe
Late September, early morning sunshine on a Sunday morning shines on the beach huts. The huts will soon be moved to their winter quarters. However, there are a few more weekends and days when there will be days to enjoy.
©Tom Jolliffe
The red door of the beach hut looks freshly painted, but it is probably just the effects of the weather and the light. Beach huts give rise to feelings of nostalgic pleasure in many who remember them from their youth. The promenade sweeps away towards the ice cream outlet, the deck chairs for hire, and the various types of craft that are launched from the slipway in the summer. The promenade leads to a small public golf course and various footpaths along the coast by Elberry Cove and on to Brixham's Battery Gardens with Brixham Harbour further ahead.
©Tom Jolliffe
The last beach hut on the beachfront. For some reason it has not been moved away for the winter.
©Tom Jolliffe
The light and reflection of the beach huts on the sand at 6.30 am in the June morning display the beach and the hillside in a near perfect form.
©Tom Jolliffe
A photograph from a low position gives the beach huts increased prominence. It's sometimes interesting to rediscover the child's eye viewpoint.
©Tom Jolliffe
The blue sky complements the blue doors of the beach huts at Broadsands beach.
©Tom Jolliffe
Brilliant reflections of the beach huts early in the morning.
©Tom Jolliffe
The view along the walkway of the main building at Broadsands Beach does not show that the building is a little tatty and is not used for its original purposes.
©Tom Jolliffe

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