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Bowling greens, tennis courts, concert shows and walks were provided for those too nervous to dip a toe in to the cool waters of the English Channel.

On what is evidently a cool day, the visitors of the 1960s are nevertheless enjoying the traditions of a day by the sea - a trip round the bay and a bracing stroll to the lighthouse.

Cooling Castle was built in the 14th century, and was once owned by Sir John Oldcastle, on whom Shakespeare based his character Falstaff.

Golden masonry radiant in the sunshine and the cool green shade of the old cemetery make the area a city centre oasis. It now even boasts a café popular with both workers and tourists alike.

The limestone cliffs overhanging on the left of the photograph shade clumps of water-loving butterbur, the leaves of which were once used to keep butter cool and fresh.

We are looking east towards some of the cooling towers of the huge Imperial Chemical Industries Wilton Site.

It is late afternoon and at last there are long, cool shadows to refresh the weary.

Before the days of refrigerators, patrons often suspended bottles of beer in the canal to keep it cool - one can only hope that the seals were sound!

Many villagers sought out the cool of the local school (centre) or the medieval church, which sits a mile from the common.

Cattle still graze here, but beyond the left-hand dredging barges the view north is now dominated by the cooling towers and chimneys of High Marnham Power Station, opened in 1962.

The windows of the grand red brick and tiled houses are wide open, which suggests that a welcome cool breeze is coming in off the sea. The chalk cliffs are part of the White Cliffs of Dover.

Cattle seek the summer shade and the cool waters of the Bourne at this ancient farm.

light their lamps, and the hotels and cafes around the harbour are alive with visitors, one might almost fancy that one was in a lively foreign seaport, especially as all the world is abroad to take the cool

I seem to recall that we thought beefburgers and thick milk shakes the height of sophistication and 'cool'.

of St Mildred's Hotel and Bathing Establishment; one can only speculate at the discomfort these ladies and children must have endured in the summer heat in their voluminous clothing, even with a cooling

One of Berkshire's finest villages is Sutton Courtenay, with the cooling towers of Didcot Power Station a constant companion to the south.

Eight massive cooling towers dominate the site today, and look out over the old graveyard of St Andrew's Church.

It originally functioned as a café, serving visitors who chose to stroll along the promenade from the town or those who braved the cool seawater at Parkgate baths.

On the far side of the pond a smartly-attired coachman in a top hat has diverted from the foot of the High Street to allow his equine companion, and the wheelrims of his trap, to cool in the water.

The cooling towers of the new District Hospital in Weston Road became the source of the worst outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease ever to occur in this country, possibly in the world.