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Shore Road (left) and Banks Road (centre) lead from Poole and Lilliput to Sandbanks (far right).

The pool is a heated outdoor pool; the fountain has gone. There is a large caravan site here, and a children's play area. The park caters for cricket, tennis, and bowls, and it has a putting green.

Poole did not become a holiday resort for many years, but retained its importance as a port and merchant centre.

Poole did not become a holiday resort for many years, but retained its importance as a port and merchant centre.

Across Poole Road, the low railing offered easy access to the fields of the Dean's Court Estate. The pub dates back at least to the 18th century, and parts of the building are even older.

Within the last twenty years a new pavilion has been built, a large sports hall added, and an indoor swimming pool provided. Further improvements are planned, including all-weather pitches.

This pool was to the east of the pier. Motor boats can be seen in the foreground but the pool was split in two.

The pool had a length of just over 50 yards and a width of just 20 yards. An earlier bathing pool was built in Exmouth in 1842, offering hot and cold sea water baths.

Close to the quays at Poole is the 18th-century harbour office, once the Old Town House, a club for ships' captains.

It has served visitors to Matlock Bath for 200 years, and is fed by a warm water spring which supplies a basement plunge pool and an outdoor swimming pool.

Its original name was 'Pool', with the 'Welsh' prefix added to distinguish it from Poole in Dorset.

The cellars are situated in one of the oldest parts of town; we see it here on a busy day at the height of Poole's mercantile past.

Wallasey Docks were built on what was known as Wallasey Pool, a once wild and beautiful tidal creek.

The lifeline between Poole and Purbeck, crossing between Sandbanks (right) and Shell Bay (left), is the Floating Bridge.

Yateley Common, one of the largest commons in Hampshire, has long been famous in the area for Wyndham's Pool, an 18th-century fishpond reservoir.

As can be seen, the Eastleigh swimming pool was very popular. Many galas were organised, and schools used it for their swimming training and sports.

Originally known just as Pool, 'Welsh'; was added to differentiate it from the English Poole in Dorset.

The open-air swimming pool in Market Drayton was built in the 1930s; it attracted people from a large area around the town, even from as far away at Stoke on Trent.

Originally the park had an open-air swimming pool. This was filled in during the 1930s and made into a children's paddling pool.

This swimming pool building was designed by Neville Player, who also designed the College across the road. It opened in 1962 and had a capacity for 220 bathers an hour.

Outdoor swimming pools were a feature of the concern for health and fitness in the 1930s.

Poole's population grew substantially during the 20th century as new industries arrived to supplement the declining merchant trade.

The paddling pool in front of it is a precursor of the modern day Sun Centre, perhaps. The coats and the empty pool reveal few takers for its delights – it must be a cold day.

A pool left behind on the sands by the falling tide makes an ideal paddling place for holidaying children.