From left: Jonathan Buckley, Howard Cobb, John Whittall, Nick Kirmatzis, Helen Oldfield, Finbarr Martin, Carol Gook, Kit Morris, Marion Pattison,…
A promotional brochure produced by the South London Swimming Club in 1991.
A flyer produced by the South London Swimming Club in 1996 in support of a bid for Sports Lottery funding…
The South London Swimming Club was established in August 1906, a few weeks after the Bathing Lake opened on 28…
Wandsworth Borough News, 10/10/1991 Mayor of Wandsworth Angela Graham appears to push actor Oliver Tobias into the water as part…
Wandsworth Guardian, 27/07/2006 Article celebrating the centenary of Tooting Bec Lido. 2006 also marked the centenary of the South London…
Unidentified newspaper, 16/03/1934 Article by South London Swimming Club press officer Charles Roskilly (CSR) lamenting the amount of work taking…
A swimming lesson at the Tooting Bec Open Air baths. A member of the South London Swimming Club had invented…
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 01/01/1932 South London Swimming Club member Douglas Mann wins the Burton Cup, first competed for in…
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 27/01/1933 Horace Lock, Secretary of the South London Swimming Club, is presented with a gold watch…
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Frank Sims (left) and Jack Snelling take to their ice-skates to clear the snow from a completely frozen lido. The photograph was taken in the 1970s.