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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

The salmon pool underneath is alluded to by Byron in his poem 'Don Juan'.

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

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.

Now the suburbs of Poole have crept nearer, and the old village has become a small dormitory town.

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.

In the middle of West View Park, opposite the paddling pool, was the bandstand.

Nowadays a covered leisure centre and swimming pool is essential to success.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

was originally on the main Leicester/Melton Mowbray road until 1810, when Edward Parsons, who also put in the turnpike at Kibworth, built what amounts to a two-mile bypass from Rotherby to Chalk Pool