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Poole's Cavern has been a major tourist attraction ever since Mary Queen of Scots visited it during her incarceration here in the 16th century.

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 view is of Sandbanks Ferry from Shell Bay looking towards Poole's sandy peninsula.

Further downstream, weir pools have became the haunt for barbel, which were introduced into the river in the 1960s.

Formerly, it was a sea mill: the tide entered the pool, now ornamental, above it and then drained back down again.

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.

Canford Bridge has three arches of Portland stone over a languid length of the River Stour, and carries the road from Wimborne to Poole.

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

Less than a century ago, sailing ships still dominate the quays at Poole.

On the right are Barclay's Bank, Merchant's, haberdashers, the post office, Bell, the Co-op (with dome), and Poole's, furnishers.

The open-air bathing pool was a new attraction, opened in time for the long hot summer of 1914.

This sylvan path winds down from the castle inner bailey towards Park Lodge, and then through the Roman wall to more open parkland with the boating pool and the River Colne.

The 1950s boating pool shelter still stands and the boats remain, still paddle boats.

The pool is an obvious source of enjoyment and pleasure for the mothers and children of the New Town in this summer scene.

When this photograph was taken from the end of the quay, the bridge linking Poole town and Hamworthy was only four years old.

The River Piddle winds beneath the chalk downlands of Dorset, giving its name to several villages along the way before reaching the sea at Poole Harbour.

Centuries ago, an arm of the sea came up to Wareham from what is now Poole Harbour.

The majesty of Lincoln Cathedral is seen from Brayford Pool.

The zig-zag roof now covers a swimming pool, and the displaced bar is in a new part of the extended building.

Families would often hire deckchairs to sit and picnic beside the pool.

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.

She was the 'Waterwitch', built at Poole in 1871 as a collier-brig, but converted to barquentine-rig in the 1880s.