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Just north of Floodgate Pool was the floodgate keeper's cottage, which was demolished in the 1950s. The family out for a stroll have stopped on the path to talk to the gatekeeper.

To its left is Kings Meadow with its 1902 swimming pool peeping through the trees, and further left is the weir by-passed by Caversham Lock.

This cavernous-like entrance opens out into a picturesque cove, containing two walled-in bathing pools for ladies and gentlemen.

The town also boasts winter gardens, a swimming pool, dancing, and golf.

This was to change very soon: young women would soon be taking over the office desks as typing-pools were establised - the first typewriter appeared in the 1880s.

Shipping in the roads lies off a somewhat forlorn Grays riverside park, complete with a boating pool and, here, a few benches; along all the estuary, high concrete flood barrier walls now obstruct long

The lake extended to thirty-two acres, and once incorporated a swimming-pool. Skiffs were available for hire, such as the one to the left of the picture.

The pool is now of clear water, and incorporates three fountains.

Model sailing boats ply back and forth across the pool. In the background is the Moot Hall of c1540; in front is the war memorial, now surrounded by a garden.

A group of children pose around a rock pool, with varying degrees of stiffness. The panama hats and high stockings are typical of the early 1920s.

In the background is the chimney for the boiler house which was used to heat the pool water and the slipper baths.

Petersfield now has both open-air and enclosed swimming pools, together with a sports centre which is named after the town's annual Taro Fair.

This outdoor pool opened in 1923 and was modernised in 1939.

Pwllheli (the name means 'saltwater pool') was granted its charter in 1355.

Here we see crowds flocking around the pier with its swimming pool and theatre. Cars were gaining in importance by this time.

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

The open-air bathing pool was a new attraction, opened in time for the long hot summer of 1914.

In 1932, the local County High School left the Barton Peveril farmhouse (which gave it its name), and shortly afterwards this open air swimming pool was built in the grounds.

In this 1950s view it has become an exclusive antique shop but in Victorian times it was a rather dingy emporium owned by H Poole, a jobbing stationer.

When this view was taken, it was nearly 20 years after the opening of the pool in Bishop's Road.

The sunny summers of the 1950s filled this pool, which had excellent amenities – a café, changing rooms, diving boards, and sunbathing and spectator areas.

He had the swimming pool cut into the rocks (lower centre left) so that his boys could still have their daily dip - stripped naked - when conditions were too rough for jumping into the sea.

The Blue Pool at Furzebrook, the best known of Purbeck's former heathland claypits was dug by Watts, Hatherley and Burns of Newton Abbot, in 1846.

In addition to the rose garden, there was a sunken Italian garden, with an ornamental pool in its centre.