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The bathing pool seen here has been recently restored after suffering damage in the disastrous floods of 1953.

The camera is probably on London Bridge, looking downstream across a quieter Pool. To the right is Pickle Herring Quay and Hay's Dock.

At the centre are the public swimming baths housing two saltwater pools, the larger capable of hosting international water polo matches and, when boarded over, doubling as gymnasium.

Now it is a valuable habitat for wild birds, but before piped water came, this pool was a better water supply than some of the town wells.

Imported logs were stored in a pool before being taken inland, often to the mines.

Here we have a closer view of the wall and walk built from the cliff opposite, encompassing the ground later laid out as gardens, and earlier as a swimming pool, by the Pegwell Bay Reclamation

Opened in 1934, the bathing pool was one of the largest in the world and capable of holding 4,000 swimmers and 20,000 spectators.

The entrance to the public gardens and former swimming pool and baths is bottom left.

A woman waits patiently against the fence by the pond; she has just come from the swimming pool area.

The shops between Pottle's and Poole Corner were demolished to make way for the old post office and an ironmonger's.

Penpol Terrace is to its right, and in the middle distance is the Carnsew Pool, which was built with a sluice for flushing out the main channel.

Present- day attractions at the nearby Leisure Centre, built in the early 1970s, are extensive and include an indoor pool, a sports hall, trampolines, squash and badminton courts, a gym, a sauna, a

This view is taken from the allotments, now occupied by Poole's modern hospital.

The tall engine house with a square stack contained a beam engine for pumping clay from the pit to the thickening pools on the right.

It can be appreciated from this photograph how the bleak area of beach and pools resulted from the infilling of the bay by silt and sand from the china clay industry; the old cliff line

The ice cream shop on the corner is also stocked with plastic beach balls and even a paddling pool.

The breakwater timbers have a worn look about them, but they still served their purpose, and formed little pools for baby crabs to hide in. Children enjoyed catching them until a big one appeared!

This building is no longer operating as a guest house; the caravan and camping park is now the main business, and it has had an indoor swimming pool since about 1980.

To the south of the lake the Coal Board built a children's swimming pool. It was later made rectangular, but now appears disused and empty of water.

weight.The Globe is positioned to represent the position of the earth in space, with nearby benches marking the points of the compass.The Isle of Purbeck, that great peninsula sprawling eastwards into Poole

Poole developed along the banks of the finest natural harbour in England.

The sign at the far end of the car park tells us that in the 1950s the hotel had a swimming pool.

Then, there were 36 boys, including 8 boarders, and the Headmaster was G J Poole, MA. By 1920, the head was the Rev Ernest Alfred Crewe Stowell, BA, and pupil numbers had risen to about 150.

It is a great place for those who like to scramble over rocks and paddle in pools. Those who prefer to sit and wait can do so at Ellison's Refreshment Rooms.