London Evening Standard, 02/08/2004 In a wider article on summer jobs in the capital, Annabelle Woods describes working as a…
100 yards was launched in November 2001 to supplement the newsletter sold to members. It was aimed at a readership…
South London Swimming Club kicked-off the lido's centenary year by holding the UK's first Cold Water Swimming Championships. This had…
South London Swimming Club members Lizzy Hearn and Alan Johnson celebrated their wedding at the lido where they met.
The programme for the 2nd UK Cold Water Championships organised by the South London Swimming Club and held at the…
A rowing-boat is used to facilitate cleaning the pool during spring 2002. In the background the new entrance, designed by…
After holding UK-wide Cold Water Swimming Championships in 2006 and 2007, the South London Swimming Club went one better in…
The programme for the 4th Cold Water Swimming Championships held at the Lido on 24 January 2009.
Wandsworth Borough News, 17/08/2005. Local artist Martin Ireland was artist-in-residence at the lido in August 2005, giving free painting lessons…
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Tooting Bathing Lake, as the pool was originally known, was built in about four months between March and July 1906. It was a work scheme for unemployed men, with about 400 in total participating in...