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Families would often hire deckchairs to sit and picnic beside the pool. Many of the well-known shops of the area face the sea.

They are all intent on what is happening on the water as yachts and clockwork boats bob their way around the pool.

One early visitor recorded in her journal: 'Water End, where the broad pool of the river is shaded by large trees.'

A final view of the Park with plenty of activity around the paddling pool, but with no one in it.

Reigate Road presents an unfamiliar appearance, looking east towards Brighton Road, where the Galleon swimming pool has given way to a busy petrol station.

A rather less likely facility in the same park area is the children's playground, which includes an attractive paddling pool. Water has always had a fascination for the young.

The pool was subsequently drained and filled in prior to the development of the later road system around Runcorn. Today the Daresbury Expressway literally flies overhead.

In 1747 a valuable cargo of tea was seized by the revenue men and stored in the Custom House at Poole.

St Mary's church at Longfleet is seen from the lake in the new Poole Park.

Within a few years a beach inspector's/lifeguard's hut, ladies' changing rooms and a small paddling pool would be built near the path.

Before the opening of the swimming baths, the townspeople had only the open-air pool in Moor Lane. That was certainly well used, sometimes by as many as 1,000 people.

Richard Jefferies described the scene in the 1880s: ‘Like the spokes of a wheel converging, streams of human life flow into this agitated pool...

This is the inner pool of the Cobb Harbour; we are looking north-westwards to High Cliff, prominent on the wooded hilltop (left).

This murky view looks west from the Pool of London towards what was to become one of the mechanical wonders of the late 19th century.

Formerly, it was a sea mill: the tide entered the pool, now ornamental, above it and then drained back down again. The building is now much altered in appearance.

On the right are Barclay's Bank, Merchant's, haberdashers, the post office, Bell, the Co-op (with dome), and Poole's, furnishers.

Canford Bridge has three arches of Portland stone over a languid length of the River Stour, and carries the road from Wimborne to Poole.

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

Less than a century ago, sailing ships still dominate the quays at Poole. Ships' chandlers and coal merchants line the waterside, and a coal cart stands idle at the side of the road.

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

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 sylvan path winds down from the castle inner bailey towards Park Lodge, and then through the Roman wall to more open parkland with the boating pool and the River Colne.

The 1950s boating pool shelter still stands and the boats remain, still paddle boats.

Beech Hurst was built in 1798 for ship's master Samuel Rolles, who was involved in Poole's trade with Newfoundland.