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The site chosen for the swimming pool was a natural suntrap on the western side of Monkton Park.

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 Grammar School vacated the building, which had quadrangle at the rear, for new buildings on Gravel Hill which were opened by Princess Margaret in 1966.

A celebrated inhabitant at that time was Dr C H Poole, born in 1850. He was a Latin and Greek scholar who knew Cardinal Newman and the Duke of Norfolk.

This view shows a picturesque mix of house styles, the timber-framed examples probably dating from the early 17th century, fronting onto a pool, essentially an inlet of the River Ouse.

Victoria Park was the obvious choice for any large gathering, though parents of young children needed to be extra vigilant in case their children unexpectedly decided to use the paddling pool.

In the 20th century, Hunstanton has spread southwards from its Victorian centre, offering entertainments such as the Blue Lagoon Swimming Pool, opened in 1927, and this Boating Lake, opened in 1932.

Today the great conurbation that is Bournemouth has absorbed older settlements nearby and has linked up with the ancient towns of Christchurch and Poole.

Here we see East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of River Asker, towards houses beside East Road (centre).

Its clifftops offer extensive views across the shining waters of Poole Bay.

Boating pools could be found in many parks in the 1950s. Here a number of children show interest in the launching of the boat. Behind the wall, lined with seats, is the River Thames.

A once grand full-size swimming pool long- since empty and in a state of total disrepair. The fences are collapsing and the undergrowth is encroaching on all sides.

More correctly known as the Loe (meaning 'pool' in Cornish), this mile- long freshwater lake was formed in the 13th century when the River Cober became dammed by a sand and shingle bar

With its fine views across the harbour, Poole Park became a popular gathering ground for tourists who wanted to walk, row boats or just sit in the sunshine.

A chain ferry transports cars and passengers over the short crossing across the mouth of Poole Harbour.

Harlow swimming pool is in the Town Park. The site is quite near the part of the River Stort that had been used for swimming lessons and galas by local schools for at least one hundred years.

This, the town's only open-air swimming pool, was recently demolished and replaced by the Marina and a supermarket: something of a poor exchange.

Despite its closeness to London, Enfield has always been a self-sustaining community, with many municipally- backed leisure facilities such as this impressive swimming pool, which we see here being enjoyed

On the right is the Royal Leamington Bath and Pump Rooms, with swimming pool and Turkish baths.

Before that, ships sheltered or tied up in Bidston Pool, which lay between Birkenhead and Seacombe.

The lodge became known as County Gates because this junction on the main Bournemouth-Poole road was also the boundary between both the two towns and Hampshire and Dorset.

The lakeside railway makes a circuit of the boating lake and the paddling pool. Most of the park was devoted to children's amusements, but there was one backwater for swans.

A great sweep of sand, appropriately called Sandbanks, guards the Bournemouth side of Poole Harbour, reaching towards the opposite peninsula of wild Studland Heath.

Beyond the far end of Fargate was Balm Green, to the east of the present City Hall, which contained Barker's Pool, a source of fresh water for the town's residents to supplement the supply from