Unidentified newspaper, 21/08/1936 An account of how three members of the South London Swimming Club rescued an 18-year old youth…
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…
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…
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…
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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.