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.
Let’s do Drill
We have a couple of un-coached swim sessions at JAGs and coach Stephen has set us some drill. All good stuff and something other club member might find useful. We still have some spare spaces for these two sessions at the discount price or £5. Limited places available. To book login and go to our […]
Book Review – The Lido by Libby Page
So after all the anticipation the book has finally arrived and, if the rumours are true, also a film at some point. But was it worth the wait? It was with these feelings of trepidation that I turned to the first page of The Lido by Libby Page; her debut novel based on her time […]
Book Review – Floating by Joe Minihane
First of all I have to confess that I have yet to read Roger Deakins’ Waterlog which was first published in 1999, a book inspired by the John Cheever’s classic American short story The Swimmer published in 1964. Waterlog has been the inspiration for many wild water swimmers ever since and in turn has now […]
The Lido book launch and signed copy.
Libby Page, author of the hotly awaited The Lido, will be launching her book at the Lido Cafe on Thursday 19th April, 7pm to 11pm, and has kindly sent Brockwell Swimmers three invites, plus three signed copies to give away. All you have to do is tell us why you love Brockwell Lido? The best […]
Sea Swims 2018
The choice of wild swimming in the UK gets bigger and bigger each year. Here are some sea swims members are signing up for this year. If you have any more suggestions of your own please let us know. Seahorse Swim Studland Bay Dorset – 1st July The Seahorse Swim is run by the East […]
Taking on the Tooting Lido Challenge
Brockwell Swimmers have again been invited to enter a team for the annual Tooting Lido Heron Invitation Gala happening Sunday 11th March. With our honour at stake this is surely a challenge we cannot refuse. The event is free to enter and will start prompt at 10am moving briskly through the races to finish at around 11:30am. We will need at least […]
A Swimming Club for Brockwell Lido
Brockwell Swimmers was started by a group of Lido users keen to see more swimming activities at this historic South London landmark. 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. […]
PHISHing at Parliament Hill Lido
Team Brockwell again joined the throng of UK cold water swimmers at Parliament Hill Lido for the annual Icy Swim Hootenanny, PHISH 2018. [slideshow id=37] Not exactly the best of weathers, it rained all day, but we were going to get wet anyway. We also had the addition of a hot tub to look forward […]