Monthly Archives: October 2009

Your cossies needed!

By admin | October 29, 2009

Friends of Moseley Road Baths are very pleased to welcome Joan and Gerald Gurney to our ‘Memories and Memorabilia Day’.  They have travelled from Essex with just a sample of 48 costumes from an even larger collection of swimwear and accessories that Joan has been collecting since the 1950’s.
Some of the costumes date back to [...]

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2 days to go!

By admin | October 29, 2009

The excitement is building up to our Memories and Memorabilia Event on Saturday. Cakes are being baked, displays being finalised, videos being edited and posters and postcards are flying out of our hands!
As we are a small voluntary group we’re reliant on people passing on the word to other people. We’re always completely [...]

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Flickrmeet at Moseley Road Baths

By admin | October 19, 2009

A couple of months ago the Birmingham Flickrmeet Group, decided to turn their attention to Moseley Road Baths.  The group, which meets monthly at various places of interest around the City took some absolutely fantastic photos showing many places in the building which are off-limits to the public.
It’s absolutely crucial that people get involved in [...]

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Using RSS feeds

By admin | October 15, 2009

Do you struggle to keep on top of all of the blogs and news sites out there? There’s debate as to what RSS stands for, but ‘Really Simple Syndication’ works for me – it brings information to you rather than the other way round. Eventually I’ve found a (slightly cheesey) YouTube video which [...]

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Still endangered

By admin | October 15, 2009

Moseley Road Baths has hit the news this week with the news that for the third consecutive year it has been placed on The Victorian Society’s top ten most endangered buildings.  The Society’s Director, Dr Ian Dungavell who earlier this year swam in Moseley Road Baths and numerous other endangered pools to raise awareness of [...]

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Memories and Memorabilia Day

By Rachel | October 15, 2009

We are pleased to invite you to this year’s ‘Memories and Memorabilia’ day. Please come and help us celebrate and don’t forget that we are eager to speak with people who want to share their own memories of the building! We welcome messages from anyone willing to get involved in helping to [...]

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Do you Tweet?

By Rachel | October 14, 2009

You can now follow Moseley Road Baths on Twitter! Head to www.twitter.com/moseleyrdbaths and hit the follow button!  We’ll be trying to keep everyone up to date with the campaign and our activities as they unfold!

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