Category Archives: Media

Join us for a ‘swim’

By FoMRB | July 22, 2011

Dear MRB Supporter, With Moseley Road Baths set to remain closed for the whole of the school holidays we’re inviting you (and if possible, your children) to join us outside the baths at noon this coming Monday, July 25th – the first day of the school holidays – to express disappointment and unhappiness at the [...]

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Press Release – Pool of Memories School Project

By FoMRB | May 16, 2011

Pupils in Balsall Heath have been learning about the history of Moseley Road Baths and creating short films based on their interviews with people who have memories of the building. As part of the Friends of Moseley Road Baths’ ‘Pool of Memories’ project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, they have been working with local film-maker Rachel Gillies to create a series of short films.

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Update on closure from Councillor Mullaney

By Rachel | January 21, 2011

Many of you will be aware that Moseley Road Baths is currently closed as work was due to begin on the lintel area around the Fire Exit on Pool 2 this month. Councillor Mullaney last week posted up a report on the latest developments which I would recommend people read to have a grasp of [...]

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Pupils set to work filming

By Rachel | January 12, 2011

Today the seven pupils involved in our Pool of Memories Project set to work filming people with memories of Moseley Road Baths. As soon as the session started they showed that they were completely on the ball by getting all of the camera equipment out and getting ready for the first ‘mock’ interview. Our first [...]

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Another view of Moseley Road Baths

By Rachel | April 12, 2010

We’re getting more and more interest in Moseley Road Baths from people who have been inspired by the building to do interesting and creative stuff. Alex Gamela came along to our Memories and Memorabilia Day last year and gathered a fair bit of footage and photography. He’s used it to create a Flash website which [...]

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Invitation to Pool of Memories Project launch

By Jen | February 9, 2010

The Pool of Memories Project Launch Event is to be held at Balsall Heath Library Moseley Road, (next to the Baths) at 3pm on Wednesday 17th February 2010.

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Sponsored swim raises fantastic £400!

By Jen | January 25, 2010

Philip Morris returned to Moseley Road Baths last Thursday to present a cheque for £400 to the Staff and Friends of the Baths. Philip who swam his first mile in the Pool in 1934 completed his sponsored swim in December last year. The money will go directly to impovements in the small pool. Thanks Philip [...]

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A bittersweet experience

By Rachel | November 6, 2009

For so many of us who use Moseley Road Baths it’s a bittersweet experience.  How to convey the grandeur, the feeling of swimming in a palace, of being taken back to another place and time?  To a time when local authorities believed in providing ‘palaces for people’?  But how heartbreaking to see the dilapidation and [...]

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Still endangered

By FoMRB | 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 organise the event. [...]

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