South London Swimming Club member Jack Fisk (right) receives the runner-up prize in the Winter Points competition from Jimmy Saunders,…
Taken at Tooting Bathing Lake after the Christmas Day race 1911. The man holding the Burton Cup, first presented in…
A group of South London Swimming Club members formed the South London Four in the 1920s and put on entertainments…
SLSC swim-hat on beach in Croatia.
Created for the UK Cold Water Swimming Championships 2017 held at Tooting Bec Lido. The igloo is made from empty…
Nell Snelling, the widow of former South London Swimming Club President, Jack Snelling, presents the "Our Jack's Half Mile" trophy…
Group of six men in swimming trunks having a snowball fight at Tooting Bec Lido circa 1930s
Letter to the local paper from Arthur Tate, Weymouth, Dorset, recalling illicit naked dips in the 'Bec open-air baths' as…
Sir Evan Spicer was chairman of the London County Council when Tooting Bathing Lake was built. He was present at…
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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.