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Beckenham Swimming Club
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Beckenham Swimming Club Internationalists
GB Youth/Junior Team Members
Documents from Beckenham Swimming Club's past
Thanks to Mr Hollyoak and Colin Kirkwood for these BSC Programmes from just post World War II:
A Splashdown newsletter from the 80's:
If you do have any interesting documents and photos relating to Beckenham Swimming Club please do send them in to be published on this website.
Biographies of Beckenham SC Olympic swimmers
History of the Town of BeckenhamBeckenham is a town in the London Borough of Bromley, England. It is located 8.4 miles (13.5 km) south east of Charing Cross. It is referred to as Bacheham in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name appears to derive from Beohha's homestead (Beohhan + ham in Old English) [1]. The River Beck was named after the town. The word Beck also means a stream in Middle English. Many attribute John Cator as being responsible for turning the village of Beckenham into a significant town in the late 1700s - a process that accelerated after his death in 1806 with the arrival of the railway from the 1830s. The History of Beckenham and photographs of the town can be seen on the excellent Beckenham History Website. where you can stay awhile and enjoy many great pictures that reflect some of Beckenham's past.
History of SwimmingSwimming has been around since prehistoric times, the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Age paintings from around 7,000 years ago. Written references date from 2000 BC. Some of the earliest references include the Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible, Beowulf, and other sagas. In 1538, Nikolaus Wynmann, a German professor of languages, wrote the first swimming book, The Swimmer or A Dialogue on the Art of Swimming (Der Schwimmer oder ein Zwiegespräch über die Schwimmkunst). Competitive swimming in Europe started around 1800, mostly using breaststroke. In 1873 John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native Americans. Due to a British disregard for splashing, Trudgen employed a scissor kick instead of the front crawl's flutter kick. Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic games in 1896 in Athens. In 1902 Richard Cavill introduced the front crawl to the Western world. In 1908, the world swimming association, Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA), was formed. Butterfly was developed in the 1930s and was at first a variant of breaststroke, until it was accepted as a separate style in 1952.
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