Another seaside picture to identify

[Yorkslass]

I think AthurUK was right - Torquay.

Vane Hill, from the harbour.

https://www.francisfrith.com/torquay/torquay-vane-hill-from-the-harbour-c1950_t62505

Yorkslass

[arthurk]

That felt a bit of a fluke! I didn't have time earlier to go looking through the Francis Frith photos, so thanks for finding that. All the ones I came up with seemed to have a different roof line on the main block of buildings in the middle.

Note the similar shadows, wind in the opposite direction, and another eclectic collection of flags.

Since the Friths photo is about 1950, it might be possible to pin Martin's down a bit more precisely if we knew when the block of flats at the top was built (there's something different on Friths').

[JenB]

Following up that lead...https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4851660

[Gadget]

Just before I turned this off last night,  I looked at the pic and thought ' looks like Torquay' 

Forgot about it until now 

[Findmyfamily9999]

I live near Torquay and as soon as I looked at it, I also thought 'looks like Torquay'

[Mart 'n' Al]

PC just crashed, brief thanks, update to follow with some background. Thank you.

[Mart 'n' Al]

My apologies for not having updated this, but Microsoft's latest upgrade disabled my PC, requiring a full reinstallation, which isn't easy when it doesn't work. 

Thanks to everybody for your suggestions especially those who identified Torquay. (I really get annoyed with restaurants that put flags of the world outside their premises as it makes it so hard to identify the location!!) 

I nearly suggested that I thought that picture was from the north east or the south east, so, being the south west I'm glad I didn't.  I was also reasonably sure that it was the UK as my father didn't go abroad until over 30 years later when he, in applying for a ten year passport discovered that he wasn't who he thought he was, but that's a long story (http://www.martinhwatson.co.uk/loughborough_sedcole_watson.html).   Identifying this picture as Torquay means a lot to me. Thank you again.  Ironically I have been there several times and didn't recognise the angle!

Martin