Tooting Bathing Lake was opened by Alexander Glegg, the Mayor of Wandsworth, on Saturday 28 July 1906. Dignitaries from the…
Alfred French was the first bathing attendant at the new pool. He is unlikely to have had the skills of…
The scene on the opening day after all the formalities had been completed. According to one local paper, hundreds of…
Tooting Bathing Lake, as it was originally known, was opened on Saturday 28 July 1906. Alexander Glegg, Mayor of Wandsworth,…
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An evocative photograph of a solitary winter swimmer, December 1995.