28 July 2006
South London Swimming Club celebrate the centenary of Tooting Bec Lido with a weekend of films at the lido.
Since the earliest days of cinema, swimming pools have been a source of fascination for film makers, allowing for an irresistible combination of dreams, longings and all manner of watery worlds and adventures. Many of early cinema’s first screen star celebrities were swimmers – athletic heroes and heroines such as Annette Kellerman, Buster Crabbe, and Johnny Weissmuller capturing the public’s imaginations in all their bathing-suited gorgeousness.
Projecting films onto a giant air-screen in the garden beside the Lido, DIVE-IN MOVIES celebrates one hundred years of features, shorts and archive footage, all featuring swimming pools and swimming. Ticket price to include a swim in the magnificent 100 yard pool, a Centenary drink and an evening of film. ...more ---> ...
Congratulations to Tooting Bec Lido swimmer, Sally Goble, who has swum the Channel - read her blog below...
It's now several days since I swam the Channel and it's just sinking in. I've gone from being plain exhausted to being completely manic. What a bloody journey to get here...
The run up The tide I am scheduled to swim on (18 July - 27 July) started on the early hours of Tuesday 18 July, and after an initial conversation with Neil, my pilot, I find that I am not, as I thought, 4th on the tide, but now 1st, due to a whole bizarre but fortunate set of circumstances. This is fantastic news because it means that I have 'first dibs' at the good weather. If it's a slightly dodgy day I can decline to swim and the day will be offered to the next swimmer in the queue. The crew are on standby every day of the tide until the weather forecast is announced at 7.30pm each day - when the pilot makes a decision as to whether you will swim or not. ...more ---> ...
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