A swimming lesson at the Tooting Bec Open Air baths. A member of the South London Swimming Club had invented…
Balham & Tooting Mercury, January 1933 Twenty-two swimmers took part in the 1932 Christmas Day race. It was won by…
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 07/10/1932 The South London Swimming Club had a small team of stunt-men who put on galas…
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 07/10/1932 The South London Swimming Club's inflatable dragon, 'Julius Caesar', was used as a prop in…
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 19/08/1932 The Dawnay Rescue Championship Cup 1932 was won by Derek Berry (known as Jack). Archibald…
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 01/01/1932 South London Swimming Club member Douglas Mann wins the Burton Cup, first competed for in…
Daily Mail, 02/01/1932 An unidentified winter swimmer shows how it's done! This photograph appeared in a number of national and…
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 28/10/1932 Louis Marchant, a teenage diver and member of South London Swimming Club, wins the Amateur…
Balham & Tooting Mercury, 1930 To mark 25 years of the South London Swimming Club, the local paper published a…
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.