Unidentified newspaper, 02/08/1935 The caption underneath the photograph describes the pool as being 'Like a lido' - the first known…
This poem - believed to have been written by Charles Roskilly, whose initials appear at the bottom - was an…
In 2008, the South London Swimming Club hosted the World Winter Swimming Championships at Tooting Bec Lido - the first…
Alfred French was the first lifeguard at Tooting Bathing Lake. On 5 August 1907 he is known to have saved…
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 13/06/1930 To mark 25 years of the South London Swimming Club, the local paper published a…
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 1930 To mark 25 years of the South London Swimming Club, the local paper published a…
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 22/09/1933 A major refurbishment of the lido took place in the early 1930s in order to…
South London Press, 05/09/1933 Twenty members of the South London Swimming Club took part in the 1933 River Swim at…
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 07/07/1933 South London Swimming Club member Louis Marchant wins the Amateur Diving Association's covered baths plain…
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Tooting Bathing Lake, as the pool was originally known, was built in about four months between March and July 1906. It was a work scheme for unemployed men, with about 400 in total participating in...
