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The beach is packed with visitors and day- trippers from St Austell, while in the foreground children and their parents are model boating and fishing around the rock pools.

The park, now Parc Howard, has been laid out for leisure activities with a children's paddling pool, while the mansion has been converted into a museum and refreshment rooms.

Sandbanks is the long spit of land dividing Poole Harbour from the sea at the southwestern end of Bournemouth.

Poole developed alongside the finest natural harbour in England; it still maintains strong links with the sea, having become a mecca for yachtsmen.

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).

With Poole Harbour beyond, and Brownsea Island in view, this long peninsula is an excellent place to watch wildfowl.

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

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

These ornamental pools are located higher up the valley and are fed by Peasholm Beck. The roof of a pagoda can be seen in the centre; it is situated on an island in the main lake.

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 warehouses in the background have been converted into flats, and the area of Sutton Pool on the far right is now a marina.

We see the war memorial just four years after its completion in honour of those from Poole who .

The cottages were built between 1870 and 1872 under the direction of Sir John Guest's wife Charlotte, who was responsible for the many familiar estate cottages now to be found scattered across Poole.

The road to the main buildings and Poole can be seen running up from the beach by the ice cream hut. Today both the ice cream hut and the gorse on the beach have disappeared.

Corfe Mullen had a mill as long ago as the Domesday Book; it retained its independence until well into the 20th century, when its great neighbour Poole began to creep out towards it.

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.

On the front of the building is an ancient sundial, and on the right hand side a carving of Benjamin Skutt, Mayor of Poole in 1727.

Children fish for small marine life in the pools the tide has left behind. The large, gracious, Victorian terraces serving as guesthouses and hotels dominate the skyline along the sea front.