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The boating lake, with its little wooden rowboats (made by Thickett's, the Grimsby boatbuilders) opened in 1924, the first major work in the great 1920s foreshore development plan transforming what until

Here children tentatively set out on a journey across the boating lake at Shoeburyness. This playground area was close to the sea.

Grafham Water is a reservoir for Anglia Water, constructed between 1962 and 1965, covering 2½ square miles - one of the largest lakes in England.

Once inside the gate, we can see the main building across the boating lake.

The School buildings, seen from across Eleven Acre Lake, were intended to fit into the Georgian parkland.

A walk around Maisemore taking in the lake is very pleasing.

On the left of the picture we can see the boating lake.

Here we see the North or Marine Lake about ten years after it opened. In the centre background is a windmill, which was situated on the top of the boathouse.

With a water surface of ninety acres and surrounded by open spaces, Hollingworth Lake became a popular destination for workers on their days off.

The beautiful valley of Eskdale runs down from some of the highest ground in the Lake District to reach the sea at Ravenglass.

The beautiful valley of Eskdale runs down from some of the highest ground in the Lake District to reach the sea at Ravenglass.

The whole complex was a focal point of entertainment, with a theatre, ballrooms, a roller-rink, snooker rooms, a skating rink, a menagerie, various refreshment stalls, an aviary, a monkey house and a lake

A view from near the Clarence Gate bridge at the southern end of the Boating Lake.

Red Lion Square takes its name from the famous old inn on the left of this photograph.

In this beautiful photograph we see the ferry boat setting out across the broad, placid waters of Lake Windermere with two horse-drawn carts on board.

This corner of Fairhaven Lake provides a quirky aside to the larger statement made by the leisure facilities in the gardens proper.

Silecroft, near Millom, stands at the southernmost extremity of the Lake District National Park, at the foot of Black Combe (1,970 ft).

The twin lakes of Crummuck Water and Buttermere were once one, but were separated by the alluvium left by Sail Beck.

On the first floor there was a lavatory that projected out over the lake.

The lady in her long black dress and the gentleman wait for the ferryman to take them across to the western side of the lake, where the wooded Claife Heights stretch away to the right.

Victoria Street leads off Church Street, now the A591, in this busy little town; it was originally known as Birthwaite, but it changed its name to match that of the nearby lake when the railway arrived

In the grounds are Knepp Mill Pond, the largest lake in Sussex, and the remains of William de Braose's castle.

Looking across the lake in St Stephen's Green to the portico of the Royal College of Surgeons. It was designed by Edward Parke in 1806 and completed in 1829.

The tower in the picture was at the end of an aerial ride that carried passengers over the lake; the ride was closed and dismantled at the end of the 1911 season.