A beach holiday destination just a short journey from Manchester was once dubbed a "shanty town" with families living in the rusting skeletons of buses and trains.
Also described in one newspaper as the "slum by the sea" the coastal resort in North Wales was once incredibly popular with holidaymakers from Greater Manchester. Even today, Talacre beach remains a popular getaway with its golden sands and holiday park.
Its dunes and coast are now regarded as internationally important wildlife habitats and a special area of scientific interest. Talacre's first holiday chalets were built on The Warren - an area of coarse land by the beach - in the 1930s.
