Wandsworth Borough News, 05/01/2005 The men's Christmas Day race is won by Steve Rowson and the ladies' race by Kit…
South West Magazine No 90, December 1996 Article by Stephanie Debere reviewing 'Tooting Bec Lido' by Janet Smith.
Royal Humane Society casebook entry for 23 September 1930. Case No 50471 records how William Laws, Captain of the South…
Jack Snelling, President of the South London Swimming Club in the early 1990s, takes a shower after his winter swim!
The men's Christmas Day race 1930.
The pool was emptied in the spring of 1996 for repairs to be carried out. The empty basin became a…
This picture of the old entrance echoes the c.1907 one of the original entrance. The red-brick building in the background…
Bob Pattison, President of the South London Swimming Club in the 1990s, takes a winter dip in the late 1970s.…
An evocative photograph of a solitary winter swimmer, December 1995.
The 1930s-style sun-dial on top of the café was designed and built by South London Swimming Club member Michael Halliday…
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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...