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Opened in 1934, the bathing pool was one of the largest in the world and capable of holding 4,000 swimmers and 20,000 spectators.

Present- day attractions at the nearby Leisure Centre, built in the early 1970s, are extensive and include an indoor pool, a sports hall, trampolines, squash and badminton courts, a gym, a sauna, a

The ice cream shop on the corner is also stocked with plastic beach balls and even a paddling pool.

The tall engine house with a square stack contained a beam engine for pumping clay from the pit to the thickening pools on the right.

It can be appreciated from this photograph how the bleak area of beach and pools resulted from the infilling of the bay by silt and sand from the china clay industry; the old cliff line

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!

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.

The town's original swimming pool was built in Mereway in 1896, and used for many years before closing due to pollution of the water.

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 name 'Fleet' means 'place at the pool.' The monks of St Swithun's at Winchester used to fish the pond, centuries before the railway divided it into two.

This photograph looks west beside the boating pool, with the Palace Hotel dominating the scene. Built in 1904, this fine hotel served as Queen Mary's Naval Hospital during the First World War.

The boating lake and nearby bathing pool were always popular attractions for holidaymakers and locals alike.

The Victorians were avid collectors of many things, and the rocks, pools and caverns around St Catherine's Island were abundant with shells, ferns, various crustaceans, starfish, jellyfish and seaweed

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A further extension to the park, created in 1930, included the tennis courts seen here on the left, as well as a paddling pool and a children's playground.

Brayford Pool, a busy inland port that connected Lincoln both to the River Trent via the Roman Foss Dyke and to the sea via the Witham, is much changed now; its warehouses are mostly replaced by offices

vicinity there are ample leisure facilities for those whose interests lie outside sailing: athletics, pitch and putt, tennis, soccer, rugby football and a fitness centre complete with a swimming pool

This was reputedly the largest and finest open-air bathing pool in the country. It covered ten acres, and contained well over one million gallons of water.