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Within a few years a beach inspector's/lifeguard's hut, ladies' changing rooms and a small paddling pool would be built near the path.

In the foreground lies the Pool of London, the province of London watermen for generations.The river, at the end of Victoria’s reign, is still busy with flat barges and sailing ships.

Corfe Mullen had a mill as long ago as the Domesday Book; it retained its independence until well into the 20th century, when its great neighbour Poole began to creep out towards it.

Richard Jefferies described the scene in the 1880s: ‘Like the spokes of a wheel converging, streams of human life flow into this agitated pool...

This murky view looks west from the Pool of London towards what was to become one of the mechanical wonders of the late 19th century.

This is the inner pool of the Cobb Harbour; we are looking north-westwards to High Cliff, prominent on the wooded hilltop (left).

Beech Hurst was built in 1798 for ship's master Samuel Rolles, who was involved in Poole's trade with Newfoundland.

The open-air pool has since closed, and the site is now a cinema and leisure complex.

Built around Sutton Pool, site of one of the original settlements in the area, the Barbican is home to Plymouth's fishing fleet.

For children the boating pool would have been an added attraction, and parents could watch from the pavilion balcony as they enjoyed a cup of tea.

At the centre are the public swimming baths housing two saltwater pools, the larger capable of hosting international water polo matches and, when boarded over, doubling as gymnasium.

Now it is a valuable habitat for wild birds, but before piped water came, this pool was a better water supply than some of the town wells.

A new open-air bathing pool was added on the seaward side of the park in the late 1920s.

This tranquil pool was dammed to supply water for a mill sited just behind the photographer.

Opened in 1874, on the site of a disused quarry on the edge of the town centre, the Arboretum is a surprisingly peaceful park where fat, contented ducks loaf around a pool.

It featured a paddling pool, tennis courts, a pitch and putt course and a bowling green, where Lord Stanley bowled the first wood.

The Ship Inn in Bunker Street was amongst the oldest in all Fylde, and was said to be the hideout for smugglers and their contraband arriving at Freckleton Pool.

The port was able to send twenty ships to Calais in 1347, thanks to the financial success of the wool trade, but its privileges were curtailed by Henry VIII in favour of Poole, and the

A new open-air bathing pool was added on the seaward side of the park in the late 1920s.

The lake extended to 32 acres, and once incorporated a swimming-pool.

Sea bathing and swimming were now fashionable; here Bangor could hardly be beaten, with its rocky pools and coves.

The lake extended to thirty-two acres, and once incorporated a swimming-pool.

The bathing pool seen here has been recently restored after suffering damage in the disastrous floods of 1953.

The camera is probably on London Bridge, looking downstream across a quieter Pool.