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The open-air pool has since closed, and the site is now a cinema and leisure complex.

A new open-air bathing pool was added on the seaward side of the park in the late 1920s.

Opened in 1874, on the site of a disused quarry on the edge of the town centre, the Arboretum is a surprisingly peaceful park where fat, contented ducks loaf around a pool.

It featured a paddling pool, tennis courts, a pitch and putt course and a bowling green, where Lord Stanley bowled the first wood.

The Ship Inn in Bunker Street was amongst the oldest in all Fylde, and was said to be the hideout for smugglers and their contraband arriving at Freckleton Pool.

This tranquil pool was dammed to supply water for a mill sited just behind the photographer.

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.

This view looks across the harbour and the boating pool from the pier.The clock-tower is just to the right of the centre of the picture, and we can see the entrance tower to the Dreamland amusement

The port was able to send twenty ships to Calais in 1347, thanks to the financial success of the wool trade, but its privileges were curtailed by Henry VIII in favour of Poole, and the

A new open-air bathing pool was added on the seaward side of the park in the late 1920s.

In the foreground lies the Pool of London, the province of London watermen for generations.The river, at the end of Victoria’s reign, is still busy with flat barges and sailing ships.

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.

The free informality of the boating pool is repeated here, with almost everybody dressed in a more-or-less casual manner.

Supplies came by sea to Poole Harbour and then by road from Hamworthy to Wimborne.

She was the 'Waterwitch', built at Poole in 1871 as a collier-brig, but converted to barquentine-rig in the 1880s. Owned by Edward Stephens, she made her last passage with cargo in 1936.

The shop sold postcards, and displays model yachts in the doorway for sailing on one of the pools on the beach.

By 1972 a swimming pool had opened at Edisford.

For children the boating pool would have been an added attraction, and parents could watch from the pavilion balcony as they enjoyed a cup of tea.

Built around Sutton Pool, site of one of the original settlements in the area, the Barbican is home to Plymouth's fishing fleet.

Hill Bottom (centre), south-west of Renscombe Farm is seen here in a view towards Chapman's Pool and Houn's-tout Cliff The slopes of the Plain and St Alban's Head (left) rise to the south.

Two boys are paddling in a pool left by the tide.

The lake extended to 32 acres, and once incorporated a swimming-pool. Skiffs were available for hire, such as the one to the left of the picture.

Sea bathing and swimming were now fashionable; here Bangor could hardly be beaten, with its rocky pools and coves.

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.