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In the 1950s it was a typical town centre park with seats, walks and flower beds, but all this changed when the Leisure Centre arrived in 1971-76, with its pyramidal pool building and large sports

Beyod the trees on the right are football pitches and the former open-air swimming pool.

Pooles, the tobacconist and newsagent with its Swan Vestas advertisement, occupied the site of the original Gotch Bank.

In the middle of West View Park, opposite the paddling pool, was the bandstand. Here at the turn of the century ­visitors were entertained by Pierrot shows and bands. To the left is Wells House.

Nowadays a covered leisure centre and swimming pool is essential to success. Worthing now has its Aquarena, a hideous neologism, and Leisure Centre.

Even in recent years these deep pools have been associated with tragic drowning incidents concerning children and despite their natural beauty they have to be approached with care.

It stands at the junction of two Roman roads, the Ackling Dyke running from Dorchester to Old Sarum, and the Bath to Poole road, although there is still doubt that the latter was ever completed.

Now the suburbs of Poole have crept nearer, and the old village has become a small dormitory town. Corfe Mullen's mill received a mention in the Domesday Book.

Here we look east along the River Witham, flowing out of Brayford Pool, with the High Street reached by steps from each bank.

The paddling pool in front is still a popular attraction on hot summer days.

The salmon pool underneath is alluded to by Byron in his poem 'Don Juan'. In the early 1600s Sir Alexander Hay left a legacy for repairing the bridge.

Sir John Moore, the pools tycoon, who built the Littlewoods empire, was born in a pub on Liverpool Road.

In 1886 the Bournemouth, Swanage and Poole Steam Packet Company lost their new steamer ' Bournemouth' in fog, when she was wrecked on Portland Bill.

Diss, this small, stylish town on the Suffolk border evolved around a six-acre pool called Diss Mere which penetrates almost to the edge of the main street.

Diss, this small, stylish town on the Suffolk border, evolved around a six-acre pool called Diss Mere, which penetrates almost to the edge of the main street.

No longer an eating place, it was well patronised in its day, and well situated in pleasant country near the River Wyre; it was not far from Meadowcroft, the home of Miss Poole, who opens her garden annually

Behind Silvia Crowe's landscape of paved terraces, trees and a pool is the exhibition hall and offices designed by Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall and Partners and completed in 1962.

Pooles, the tobacconist and newsagent with its Swan Vestas advertisement, occupied the site of the original Gotch Bank.

Richard Jefferies describes the frenetic scene in his 1883 book 'The Story of My Heart': 'Streams of human life flow into this agitated pool of blue carts and yellow omnibuses, varnished carriages and

Richard Jefferies describes the frenetic scene in his 1883 book 'The Story of My Heart': 'Streams of human life flow into this agitated pool of blue carts and yellow omnibuses, varnished carriages and

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

On the beach there was a children's boating pool, and the Pier had a bar and an amusement palace on it. The Pier was built to accommodate the crowds, and was really two piers next to each other.

Quarrymen - who created this scenic spot - cut out a swimming pool so that the boys could still take their daily dip when the sea was too choppy.

The grounds were laid out by T H Mawson in 1936, during the era of outdoor pool building, and in this context the Lido is special on account of its grand scale.