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Heavy surf on the beach at Porthtowan is not the place for smaller children, so this artificial pool was made among the rocks as a place for safe bathing.

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.

Identifiable businesses include Murray Kerridge's jewellery shop (far left), the shoe chain Frisby's, who had begun their long tenure opposite after moving from Poole Corner, and in the distance

Poole developed alongside the finest natural harbour in England.

In 1967, one of the Georgian residences with seven bedrooms, two acres and a heated-swimming pool cost £20,000.

Humphrey Sturt in particular, had many ideas for the advancement of agriculture, not only here but also on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour which he brought under cultivation.

The lock here has the greatest fall of water on the river, with the water from adjacent Sandford Pool thundering over the weir, which is known as the Sandford Lasher.

Paddling in streams and pools on the beach was popular in Victorian times.

It has some of the best clifftop views in the area, overlooking the broad waters of Poole Bay.

The Mountbatten peninsula (foreground) guards and shelters the Cattewater and Sutton Pool (right).

Among the facilities at places like the Norbeck Hall Hydro were tennis courts and an indoor swimming pool.

The swimming pool existed until 1973, according to Stephen Pewsy in 'Chigwell and Loughton: A Pictorial History'.

Nowadays the greater part of Poole's population lives in the suburbs that have sprawled across the heathlands towards Bournemouth and Wimborne; but when this picture was taken, the residents mostly

By damming the River Dibbins, this man-made mill pool was created to provide water for the corn mill that once stood nearby.

Westbourne has some of the best clifftop views in the area, overlooking the broad waters of Poole Bay.

Certainly this view suggests delight - with swimmers poised on the diving boards amid the tree-fringed beauty of Ashstead's outdoor pool.

The main road from Poole to Bournemouth was called Parkstone Hill until the 1890s, when a castellated house called The Castle was built on high ground near the top.

Before the opening of the swimming baths, the townspeople had only the open-air pool in Moor Lane.

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

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

The pool was subsequently drained and filled in prior to the development of the later road system around Runcorn.

A rather less likely facility in the same park area is the children's playground, which includes an attractive paddling pool.

This is the view from Poole Bridge.

The village of Portloe (meaning 'bay with pool') is one of Cornwall's best-kept secrets - a tiny, rocky fishing cove with narrow streets and the fine 17th-century Lugger Inn.