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The attractive estuary is seen here at low tide, but deep pools in the sand make it a tricky place to cross over to Crantock.

The popular swimming pool was built in 1939, but it was demolished to make way for Tesco's superstore.

A swannery lay on the wooded islet in the pear-shaped lake, and a paddling pool was added later. The extensive dockland area lay out of sight behind the wooded hill and the power station.

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

The rocks in the centre are where Tinside Pool now stands.

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

The public were provided with a diving board, dry and wet-side changing cubicles, a children's paddling pool, a first aid room and a staff mess room, which was provided by the Chippenham Amateur Swimming

Campers drift back to their caravans after watching one of Poole Harbour's famous sunsets.

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

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

Newnham Paddling Pool in Lammas Land, pictured here with just a small handful of die-hard paddlers and bathers, and a park keeper looking on.

Beyond the boating pool and outside the park was Middle Mill, demolished in the careless 1950s.

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.

This is what children of all ages like best: fishing about in the rock pools at low tide.

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

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...

The morning-coated and top-hatted scholars stroll past Barnes Pool, rebuilt in 1930 in Neo-Georgian style.

The original plan for the docks involved building a wall across the mouth of Wallasey Pool to create a tidal dock, or float.

This picturesque area of narrow streets sits alongside the ancient fishing quay of Sutton's Pool.

There were also a stream and small pools here, which were eventually covered in to form part of the sewer.

What is now called Kingsbury Water Park contains 30 pools like this, set in 600 acres of the Tame Valley.

It was the scene of Robert Baden-Powell's wedding in 1912; his bride was Olave Soames from nearby Lilliput overlooking Poole Harbour.

Mothers and children paddle in the sandy pools of Towan Beach. On Tolcarne Headland in the background is the Great Western Hotel.