A view of the lido looking from the deep end towards the shallow end. There is not yet a basket…
Brightside, No. 96, January 2006 In January 2006 Tooting Bec Lido hosted the UK's first Cold Water Swimming Championships, organised…
The first UK Cold Water Swimming Championships, held over the weekend of 21-22 January 2006, launched the centenary celebrations for…
At the turn of the century, Clapham Canoe Club used to hire the lido for training sessions.
The Tooting Physical Culture Club was set up in the early 1950s under the umbrella of the South London Swimming…
The Tooting Bec Physical Culture Club was set up under the umbrella of the South London Swimming Club in the…
Wandsworth Borough News, 17/08/2005 Janet Smith joined the South London Swimming Club in the early 1990s. In 1996 she wrote…
Artist Toni McGreachan spent six months as artist-in-residence at Tooting Bec Lido in 1999, producing a series of paintings reflecting…
As part of the centenary celebrations, 100 lighted candles were placed on the surface of the lido at the end…
Doreen Fitch, South London Swimming Club Membership Secretary, features on a London Olympics flyer encouraging British Olympians to make a…
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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.