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Sparkhill Residents Reject PFI Swimming Pool Proposals

By admin | February 4, 2010

A public meeting of Sparkhill residents last night unanimously rejected proposals for a PFI-funded swimming pool on the Moseley School site in Springfield Road to replace the former pool on Stratford Road, which closed in July 2008 after 77 years of service owing to major structural defects.

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November public events

By admin | November 16, 2009

On Saturday, November 21st, the Friends of Moseley Road Baths group will be taking part in the annual Birmingham History Day event at the University of Birmingham during which we will be discussing our Pool of Memories project.

Full details of what is a full day’s programme are included below. Admission costs £14 [...]

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Support Coseley Baths Campaign

By admin | November 15, 2009

There will be a protest outside Coseley Baths on Sunday 22nd November at 11am. The pool is due to be demolished – another community pool gone. The address for the Baths is Peartree Lane Coseley – postcode is WV14 8HA, there are 3 Peartree lanes in the Black Country so make sure you go to [...]

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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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