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A pool left behind on the sands by the falling tide makes an ideal paddling place for holidaying children.

The pool is a heated outdoor pool; the fountain has gone.

Poole Grammar School vacated the building, which had quadrangle at the rear, for new buildings on Gravel Hill which were opened by Princess Margaret in 1966.

A celebrated inhabitant at that time was Dr C H Poole, born in 1850.

In the 20th century, Hunstanton has spread southwards from its Victorian centre, offering entertainments such as the Blue Lagoon Swimming Pool, opened in 1927, and this Boating Lake, opened in 1932.

Victoria Park was the obvious choice for any large gathering, though parents of young children needed to be extra vigilant in case their children unexpectedly decided to use the paddling pool.

This view shows a picturesque mix of house styles, the timber-framed examples probably dating from the early 17th century, fronting onto a pool, essentially an inlet of the River Ouse.

Boating pools could be found in many parks in the 1950s.

More correctly known as the Loe (meaning 'pool' in Cornish), this mile- long freshwater lake was formed in the 13th century when the River Cober became dammed by a sand and shingle bar

A once grand full-size swimming pool long- since empty and in a state of total disrepair.

This, the town's only open-air swimming pool, was recently demolished and replaced by the Marina and a supermarket: something of a poor exchange.

Today the great conurbation that is Bournemouth has absorbed older settlements nearby and has linked up with the ancient towns of Christchurch and Poole.

Here we see East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of River Asker, towards houses beside East Road (centre).

Harlow swimming pool is in the Town Park.

A chain ferry transports cars and passengers over the short crossing across the mouth of Poole Harbour.

A small wooden bridge across Hayburn Beck leads to the rocky beach, where the stream cascades over large gritstone boulders into a pool on the beach below.

Parkstone is now a rather urbanised suburb on the road between Bournemouth and Poole, though it remained a discrete community for much of the last century.

The lodge became known as County Gates because this junction on the main Bournemouth-Poole road was also the boundary between both the two towns and Hampshire and Dorset.

Before that, ships sheltered or tied up in Bidston Pool, which lay between Birkenhead and Seacombe.

Despite its closeness to London, Enfield has always been a self-sustaining community, with many municipally- backed leisure facilities such as this impressive swimming pool, which we see here being enjoyed

On the right is the Royal Leamington Bath and Pump Rooms, with swimming pool and Turkish baths.

For years this was Poole Council's only concession to the tourism industry, which did well in neighbouring Bournemouth.

The 1893 School of Science and Art with its ogee turret became a swimming pool, next The Intimate Theatre and finally in the 1980s offices.

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