This poem - believed to have been written by Charles Roskilly, whose initials appear at the bottom - was an expression of the frustration felt by many of the South London Swimming Club men at the new rules tha...
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 22/09/1933 A major refurbishment of the lido took place in the early 1930s in order to improve the facilities for women who were expected in greater numbers following the introductio...
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 03/07/1931 Sixty-two women are enrolled as full members of the South London Swimming Club for the first time. The first officers elected to run the Ladies' Section are largely the w...
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 12/06/1931 Following the decision taken at the Annual Meeting in March 1931, the South London Swimming Club made the ladies' section a reality in the middle of June that year. The ne...
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 15/05/1931 Mixed bathing at Tooting Bathing Lake was first introduced in the summer of 1931, and then only on Sunday and Wednesday mornings after 10.00 a.m. This advance brought wit...
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 03/04/1931 First steps taken by the South London Swimming Club's Annual Meeting to admit women as full members. List of committee members for 1931 and list of prize-winners for the p...
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 22.03.1930 A detailed account of the South London Swimming Club's 1930 AGM at which a resolution to accept lady members was lost 'by a large margin'. William Laws was elected captain...
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Wandsworth Borough News, 17/08/2005 Janet Smith joined the South London Swimming Club in the early 1990s. In 1996 she wrote a short history of Tooting Bec Lido and followed it up in 2005 with a survey of all ...