How the bathing-lake looked in the 1900s. Changing accommodation on the eastern side was a rudimentary shelter without doors. The…
South London Press, 19/07/1946 Inquest into the death of 5-year old John Waddell who died at the pool after falling…
The scene on the opening day after all the formalities had been completed. According to one local paper, hundreds of…
The Mayor of Wandsworth, Alexander Glegg, formally opened the pool on Saturday 28 July 1906. It is referred to here…
Tooting & Balham Gazette, 28/06/1957 Inquest into the death of 9-year old John Michael Corbett from Streatham who was found…
The Sphere, 24/11/1917 On 8 July 1908 Leonard Horncastle won the South London Swimming Club's junior race over a distance…
On 26 March 2006, 101 members of the South London Swimming Club doggy-paddled their way across one width of the…
An exhibition of artworks inspired by the lido was held at a venue in Wandsworth from 7-21 October 2006. It…
Wandsworth Guardian, 02/08/2006 Feature on open-air film festival held at Tooting Bec Lido from 28-30 July to celebrate the centenary…
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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.
