Tooting Bec Lido, from north (shallow) end, with the original entrance at the far end
Tooting Bec Lido is an open-air fresh water swimming pool in South London. It is the largest fresh water swimming pool by surface area in the United Kingdom, being 100 yd (91.4 m) long and 33 yd (30.2 m) wide.[1][2][3]
The Lido is on Tooting Bec Common between Tooting and Streatham. An original condition of construction was that it should be concealed from views across the common by a surrounding earth ramp. This ramp is now largely covered with bird-filled trees, except where it is breached by the new entrance.
The alternating bright red, yellow, and green doors of the changing cubicles seen above the turquoise water make the Lido a popular location for advertisement "shoots" and other filming. Brad Pitt's boxing "pool" scene in Snatch was filmed at the Lido.
The Lido is operated and maintained by the London Borough of Wandsworth.
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to TootingBecLido, which is 91.5 m × 30 m (300 ft × 98 ft). Tooting shares two football clubs with nearby Mitcham: Tooting & Mitcham FC and Tooting &...
spaces as Tooting Common for many years, but recent signage uses the plural title. TootingBec Common includes TootingBecLido and Tooting Graveney Common...
is a mainly residential area close to Tooting Commons, which provide a large open space including TootingBecLido. Besides containing Furzedown halls of...
Hampstead Heath and TootingBecLido in South London. Examples beyond London include Jesus Green Swimming Pool in Cambridge, Sandford Parks Lido in Cheltenham...
in Europe at 100 yards (91 m) in length (the largest freshwater lido is TootingBecLido in London, which is the same length, but 33 yards (30 m) wide)...
Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill and TootingBecLido. Another swimming venue, the Highgate Ponds are a short walk away. There is a users' group for the lido (and...
suit tears on impact with the water. Automated pool cleaner Bather load Lido List of water games Neutral buoyancy pool Pool fence Pool noodle Respiratory...
including public pools, to permit mixed bathing. For example, when TootingBecLido, an open-air pool in South London, opened in 1906, it was segregated...
John Hendry Anderson (1854–1913), Anglican rector and instigator of TootingBecLido John Anderson (archbishop of Moosonee) (1866–1943), Anglican Church...
Aberdeenshire – 55 yd × 20 yd (50.3 m × 18.3 m) heated seawater open air pool TootingBecLido – 100 yd × 33 yd (91.4 m × 30.2 m) unheated open air pool Yearsley...
Ponds in Hampstead. The largest fresh water pool in the UK is the TootingBecLido in South West London which is home to the South London Swimming Club...
(one of the few remnants of the Great North Wood), Streatham Common, TootingBecLido and Wandsworth Common. The part around Balham and Earlsfield is the...
ahead, get a hat; Italian café culture; The Victorian public loo; and TootingBecLido. Tuesday 9 January 2007 – Churchill's secret wartime bunker; a prisoner-of-war...
moved to Lavender Garden, Battersea. He also began training at the TootingBecLido, the largest open-air unheated swimming pool in London. However, he...
The Swimmer, Sharrocks invited people to 'swim across London from TootingBecLido to Hampstead Heath ponds'. It has been referred to as a 'flesh mobbing'...
woods. Ownership of the woods passed with the manor from Ernulf de Hesdin to Bec Abbey and on to King's College, Cambridge over the years, until Park Wood...
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