Swim News The Brockwell Swim club is based at Brockwell Lido; an unheated open-air Lido in Herne Hill, South London, SE24. The pool is open all year for both Winter and Summers swimming. Challenging during the colder months and blissful on a hot sunny day. The Brockwell Swimmers club was formed in January 2016 by a group of Lido users keen to see more swimming activities at this historic South London landmark. The aims and objectives of the Club are to promote participation of the whole community in the sport of swimming. We work to facilitate and encourage the teaching, development and practice of good swimming both at the pool and open water. We also work with Lambeth Council and Fusion Management to ensure the continued accessibility of this public facility for the local community. As well as events at the Lido, the club organises indoor Water Polo and Swim Sessions at local indoor pools, as well as taking part in national and international club events and swims. We also organise Summer walk/swims, club socials and liaise with other swimming clubs.
Films at the Lido 2015
There is a wonderful range of films being shown this year at the Lido, both ticketed and free, so here is a useful list to help you choose: Saturday9th May 8:30pm Grand Hotel Budapest (2014, 15, 100mins)This typically stylish but deceptively thoughtful Wes Anderson’s film follows the adventures of the decidedly quirky hotelier Gustav H […]
Summer Synchro Swimming Sessions Start April 24th
The very patient Susan Innes is returning this Summer to try and teach us the art Synchronised Swimming, again. Last year this was a real hoot so fun guaranteed. The one hour classes will take place every Friday for six evenings starting 24th April. There will be a pool-side warm up at 6:45pm and then into the water at […]
Sally Goble’s last swim at Parliament Hill Lido
To finish her epic quest to swim 50 London pools in 50 days Sally will be at Parliament Hill Lido this Saturday morning at 10am and has invited swimmers from all the places she has visited, including Brockwell Lido, to join her for her last mile. Brockwell Swimmers will be travelling up on the 8:46am […]
Peckham Rye Lido is reborn
Studio Octopi has won an invited competition to draw up plans for a new lido at Peckham Rye in South London The practice competed against East London-based architects practice Red Deer to win the job. Studio Octopi will now work with lido campaign founders Ben Lloyd-Ennals and Jim Glynn, alongside the local community to deliver […]
Please sponsor our Swimathon Swimmers
On Friday 17th April Brockwell Swimmers will be doing their bit to raise money for the Marie Curie Charity who provide thousands of hours of nursing care and support to terminally ill people and their families across the UK. Please click on any of the team members below and donate to this very worthwhile cause… […]
Kings Cross Ponds opens this Spring
Of Soil and Water: King’s Cross Pond Club is a new art installation in the form of a natural bathing pond, right in the middle of the King’s Cross development site. The 40 metre long pond has space for over 100 bathers and is entirely chemical free. The water is purified through a natural, closed-loop […]
Bathers take over the Turner Gallery
“Sea Bathers” Sunday 24th May, 10:30am – 4:00pm at Turner Contemporary Margate (Foyle Rooms) and then Walpole Bay Tidal Pool, Cliftonville. An exciting day of talks and events organised by the South East Archive of Seaside Photography considering how creatives and communities reflect and respond to the sea and swimming. This includes a talk by acclaimed writer and […]
Michael Keane swam a mile… butterfly!
Congratulations to Michael Keane who swam his epic mile this morning… butterfly. This is part of his fund raising campaign to help combat Parkinsons Disease: So why Parkinsons UK? My mother suffered from Parkinsons towards the end of her life so I know what it’s like. Also, I was born exactly 200 years after Dr James […]