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Brownsea is the largest island in Poole Harbour and now belongs to the National Trust.

The miller looks out over the pool of this old Surrey watermill at Barford, an isolated part of Churt village.

When Henry VIII's topographer John Leland travelled from Poole to Wimborne in 1542, he noted passing over a bridge with '12 good arches'.

As well as public parks and memorial gardens, Aldershot is famous for its enormous open-air swimming pool, which covers an acre and can hold a million gallons of water.

Families paddle in the rock pools, lounge in deck chairs and walk along the promenade to enjoy the sea breezes.

As well as public parks and memorial gardens, Aldershot is famous for its enormous open-air swimming pool, which covers an acre and can hold a million gallons of water.

The lake is actually the weir pool. This is a favourite venue for families, and with so many people using the park, bright red lifebelts are now placed along the water's edge.

As the tide recedes, family groups explore the rock pools amongst the heavily-eroded limestone crags, or picnic on the gravel beach.

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

Three women seem completely absorbed by the youngster's activity in the pool in the rather posed shot outside the holiday chalets.

The lock here has the greatest fall of water on the river, with the water from adjacent Sandford Pool thundering over the weir, which is known as the Sandford Lasher.

Paddling in streams and pools on the beach was popular in Victorian times. Note the hats and long dresses.

It has some of the best clifftop views in the area, overlooking the broad waters of Poole Bay.

They are now occupied be Poole Waterfront Museum. Salisbury Street has now become Sarum Street.

Begun as a blockhouse to protect Poole Harbour in the reign of Henry VIII, it was completed in 1547- 8. The remains of the blockhouse survive only as a basement room.

This area, after being occupied by a Wild West show in the late 1960s and early 70s, is now occupied by the Marina Centre indoor swimming pool complex.

Although the original pools survive, they are now fed by new and larger fountains.

To the east of the house, the swimming pool, with its red-brick orangery designed by Reginald Cooper in the mid 1930s, presents a peaceful well-ordered scene.

Nowadays the greater part of Poole's population lives in the suburbs that have sprawled across the heathlands towards Bournemouth and Wimborne; but when this picture was taken, the residents mostly

The swimming pool existed until 1973, according to Stephen Pewsy in 'Chigwell and Loughton: A Pictorial History'. Then the centre became a camp site, and finally closed altogether in 1984.

Westbourne has some of the best clifftop views in the area, overlooking the broad waters of Poole Bay.

By damming the River Dibbins, this man-made mill pool was created to provide water for the corn mill that once stood nearby.

The Mountbatten peninsula (foreground) guards and shelters the Cattewater and Sutton Pool (right).

Among the facilities at places like the Norbeck Hall Hydro were tennis courts and an indoor swimming pool.