Photo by Keiran Doherty In the picture (from left): Debbie Butler, Carol Gook, Lucy Neal, Lucinda Denning The story behind…
South London Swimming Club team photograph taken at the pool, October 1912. A number of trophies are on display in…
South London Swimming Club member Megan Willis receives the Jenny Kinnaird trophy from Mayor of Wandsworth Colin Dawe. Front row,…
1908 was the first year that the Burton Cup was offered as the prize for the winner of the men's…
A female attendant was employed for the very limited hours when women were permitted to swim at the Bathing-Lake. Here…
Christmas Day 1906 It's not certain that a race was held on the first Christmas morning that the pool was…
Tooting Bathing Lake, as it was originally known, was opened on Saturday 28 July 1906. Alexander Glegg, Mayor of Wandsworth,…
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Wandsworth Borough News, 17/08/2005 Janet Smith joined the South London Swimming Club in the early 1990s. In 1996 she wrote a short history of Tooting Bec Lido and followed it up in 2005 with a...
