Category Archives: Birmingham

Baths reopening now scheduled for mid-Jan

By FoMRB | Published: 03/10/2011

Here is Cllr Mullaney’s latest update on work to the Baths, dated 29th September. I attended a meeting this afternoon with the contractors who will shortly start working on re-opening Moseley Road baths. The good news is that we are still on target to re-open the swimming baths in mid-January 2012. My last blog update [...]

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Moseley Road Baths Art Exhibition – Call for submissions

By FoMRB | Published: 08/09/2011

The Friends of Moseley Road Baths are looking for artists to submit work for an exhibition of art inspired by Moseley Road Baths and swimming in Birmingham for this year’s Memories and Memorabilia Day. This event is part of the Friends’ Heritage Lottery funded “Pool of Memories” oral history project and there is a possibility [...]

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Stirchley Baths photos

By FoMRB | Published: 05/09/2011

We went along to the opening day at Stirchley Baths on 3rd September 2011 – the last day that the building opened to the public before its conversion to a community centre later this year.  The event saw queues out the door and round the building – about 600 people donned hard hats and looked [...]

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Birmingham’s Lido heritage

By FoMRB | Published: 30/08/2011

Amidst talk of cutbacks and closures it’s easy to forget some of the fantastic municipal facilities that Birmingham has run in much harder economic times than those we face today. A recent discussion stemming from a photo of the Cannon Hill Bathing Pool on the Digital Balsall Heath site got a few of us discussing [...]

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A history of ‘Bournville Lane Baths’

By FoMRB | Published: 30/08/2011

As Stirchley Baths prepares to open its doors one last time before the building’s conversion into a community centre, local historian and member of Friends of Moseley Road Baths Steve Beauchampé looks back at the Baths’ history. Saturday, September 3rd affords what is expected to be the last opportunity for the public to see inside [...]

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Baths to reopen after Christmas

By FoMRB | Published: 25/08/2011

Update on Moseley Road baths –25th August 2011 – just in from Cllr Mullaney The date for the re-opening of Moseley Road baths has been put back to the New Year, following the discovery of large amounts of loose asbestos in the basement area. My last blog update was on 25th July and can be [...]

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Tour of Stirchley Baths

By FoMRB | Published: 25/08/2011

This just in from a member of the group – more details to follow as we get them! ‘Found out that there will be a last chance to see around inside Stirchley Baths (closed 25 years ago) on Saturday 3rd September between 11 and 3. Council have sold site and other land around to Tesco. [...]

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Digital Balsall Heath

By FoMRB | Published: 10/08/2011

We’re really excited to hear about this collaboration between the smashing folks over at Balsall Heath Local History Society (who have been really helpful with our research and have supported countless events that we’ve hosted) and MACE‘s (Media Archive for Central England) ‘Full Circle’ Project.  There’s a full report of the launch event on MACE’s [...]

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Birmingham University To Build 50m Swimming Pool

By FoMRB | Published: 09/08/2011

This article originally appeared in TheBirminghamPress.com on 8th August Birmingham’s long quest for a 50-metre swimming pool appears to have taken a major step forward with the announcement today by the University of Birmingham of plans for a major redevelopment of sports facilities at its main Edgbaston campus. The University will construct a 50-metre pool [...]

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“We Want To Swim” Demo

By FoMRB | Published: 26/07/2011

As the six-week school summer holidays got underway a group of frustrated parents and children descended on Moseley Road Baths in Balsall Heath to complain about the ongoing closure of their favourite pool. The Baths shut for essential repairs at Christmas for what Birmingham City Council initially claimed would be just six weeks, but more [...]

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