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Heavy surf on the beach at Porthtowan is not the place for smaller children, so this artificial pool was made among the rocks as a place for safe bathing. The water is refreshed at every high tide.

Newnham Paddling Pool in Lammas Land, pictured here with just a small handful of die-hard paddlers and bathers, and a park keeper looking on.

Identifiable businesses include Murray Kerridge's jewellery shop (far left), the shoe chain Frisby's, who had begun their long tenure opposite after moving from Poole Corner, and in the distance

Poole developed alongside the finest natural harbour in England. It still maintains strong links with the sea, having become a mecca for yachtsmen.

In 1967, one of the Georgian residences with seven bedrooms, two acres and a heated-swimming pool cost £20,000.

Humphrey Sturt in particular, had many ideas for the advancement of agriculture, not only here but also on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour which he brought under cultivation.

The lock here has the greatest fall of water on the river, with the water from adjacent Sandford Pool thundering over the weir, which is known as the Sandford Lasher.

Paddling in streams and pools on the beach was popular in Victorian times. Note the hats and long dresses.

It has some of the best clifftop views in the area, overlooking the broad waters of Poole Bay.

The Mountbatten peninsula (foreground) guards and shelters the Cattewater and Sutton Pool (right).

Among the facilities at places like the Norbeck Hall Hydro were tennis courts and an indoor swimming pool.

The swimming pool existed until 1973, according to Stephen Pewsy in 'Chigwell and Loughton: A Pictorial History'. Then the centre became a camp site, and finally closed altogether in 1984.

Nowadays the greater part of Poole's population lives in the suburbs that have sprawled across the heathlands towards Bournemouth and Wimborne; but when this picture was taken, the residents mostly

By damming the River Dibbins, this man-made mill pool was created to provide water for the corn mill that once stood nearby.

Westbourne has some of the best clifftop views in the area, overlooking the broad waters of Poole Bay.

Certainly this view suggests delight - with swimmers poised on the diving boards amid the tree-fringed beauty of Ashstead's outdoor pool.

The main road from Poole to Bournemouth was called Parkstone Hill until the 1890s, when a castellated house called The Castle was built on high ground near the top.

Before the opening of the swimming baths, the townspeople had only the open-air pool in Moor Lane. That was certainly well used, sometimes by as many as 1,000 people.

St Mary's church at Longfleet is seen from the lake in the new Poole Park.

In 1747 a valuable cargo of tea was seized by the revenue men and stored in the Custom House at Poole.

The pool was subsequently drained and filled in prior to the development of the later road system around Runcorn. Today the Daresbury Expressway literally flies overhead.

A rather less likely facility in the same park area is the children's playground, which includes an attractive paddling pool. Water has always had a fascination for the young.

In this 1950s view it has become an exclusive antique shop but in Victorian times it was a rather dingy emporium owned by H Poole, a jobbing stationer.

This view looks across the harbour and the boating pool from the pier.The clock-tower is just to the right of the centre of the picture, and we can see the entrance tower to the Dreamland amusement