The winner of the Christmas Day race holds the Burton Cup. He is flanked, presumably, by the swimmers who came second and third. All three were also awarded miniature gold medals which they are wearing.
Two divers execute a head-first dive in tandem possibly as part of a diving contest held in the early years of the Bathing Lake. The diving-boards were dismantled in the 1970s due to Health & Safety considerat...
Frederick Judge executes a graceful swallow dive off the boards at Tooting Bathing Lake. It's thought this may have been the occasion in 1915 when he won the Huntley Cup, though it's not certain. The two men s...
Tooting & Balham Gazette, 06/10/1909 Presentation to the South London Swimming Club of the Dawnay Cup by the Mayor of Wandsworth, Archibald Dawnay, himself. It is described as a 'massive silver cup' and was f...
The Sphere, 24/11/1917 On 8 July 1908 Leonard Horncastle won the South London Swimming Club's junior race over a distance of 33 yards and was rewarded with an inscribed copy of Oliver Twist. He was 13 years ...
The scrapbook contains mostly photographs, interspersed with some newspaper cuttings. The contents have been digitised and can be accessed by clicking on the tags below.
South London Swimming Club team photograph taken at the pool, October 1912. A number of trophies are on display in the foreground. Just visible in the background is the structure of the diving-boards.
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The outside of the original entrance which was sited at the southern (deep) end of the pool. The building included Ladies and Gents toilets which were accessible from the Common. In the 1930s a red-brick pump...