Poole Dorset Photographs

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Title: A Ball Game on the Beach Place: Poole Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 More information on using wallpapers is available here. About: In the early evening when all the crowds of gone, the wide stretch of fine sand at Sandbanks makes the ideal spot to play ball. Photograph Added: 19th August 2007

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Title: View across to Old Harry Rocks Place: Poole Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 More information on using wallpapers is available here. About: With far reaching views like this one it is not surprising that Sandbanks at Poole in Dorset has a main road that is known as "millionaires' row". This small area has the fourth highest land value, by area, in the world. Photograph Added: 19th August 2007

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Title: Sandbanks Place: Poole Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 More information on using wallpapers is available here. About: Sandbanks Poole is a premier Blue Flag Beach and the facilities are second to none. There is a café and ice cream kiosks. There are shops and even hotels just across the road. Beach wheelchairs are available to hire and there is a beach office, lifeg...... Photograph Added: 11th August 2007

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Title: Six O'Clock at Sandbanks Place: Poole Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 More information on using wallpapers is available here. About: It was six o'clock when we took photographs at Sandbanks and the beach was nearly empty it would have been a totally different picture earlier in the day. Photograph Added: 11th August 2007

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Title: Poole Beaches Place: Poole Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 More information on using wallpapers is available here. About: This distinctive sign at Sandbanks Poole gives information about the Poole beaches. The long stretch of fine sand on this beach makes it very popular with families. Photograph Added: 11th August 2007

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About Poole Dorset.

Poole lies 4 miles west of Bournemouth and in medieval times it was the largest settlement in Dorset.
Poole harbour has the second longest shoreline in the world only Sydney in Australia has longer waters edge. The harbour is a drowned river valley and its deep waters meant that it could accommodate large vessels. By the 13th century Poole was the biggest port in Dorset overtaking its near neighbours of Weymouth and Wareham.
Henry Page a notorious pirate from the Poole area plundered the French ships so often that in 1406 they raided Poole in retaliation.
Some fine old buildings are to be found on the quayside at Poole testifying to the importance of the town in the past. The quay at Poole is always lively with boats offering trips to Brownsea Island, Wareham etc. or just around the harbour. Poole pottery had been part on the quay since the 1870?s but today the factory has moved to Sopers Lane. The factory outlet shop has remained selling the widest range of Poole pottery designs to be found anywhere including a range of factory seconds at competitive prices. The modern waterside Dolphin Quays apartment complex now offers magnificent views over Poole harbour.
There are a number of islands to be found in the harbour probably the best known is Brownsea Island now owned by the National Trust and maintained as a nature reserve. A 33 foot Roman boat dating from 295 BC was discovered on the island. General Robert Bawden-Powell tested out his idea of teaching boys the scouting skills he had refined during the Boer War by taking a group of 20 boys to Bownsea in 1907. This proved a big success and the start of the Boy Scout movement that is still popular today.
Sandbanks and Studland, which lies opposite, almost cut off Poole Harbour from the sea and it is these two headlands that make the harbour such a safe anchorage. A car and passenger ferry operates between Sandbanks and Studland and saves the traveller over 25 miles land journey between these two very beautiful places.