By FoMRB | January 24, 2012
Thanks so much for all your supportive comments in response to the reopening of the Baths being delayed once again. We thought that it was appropriate to share some of your thoughts – please do keep them coming via e-mail or using the comments section below. We know full well how passionate you all are [...]
Also posted in Birmingham, Building, Campaign, Politics, Repairs, Swimming Groups | Tagged B12, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, Birmingham City Council, Campaign, closure, FoMRB, Friends of Moseley Road Baths, Moseley Road, Mullaney, Swimming, Swimming Clubs, Tony Kennedy |
By FoMRB | November 28, 2011
The Friends of Moseley Road Baths group is 5 years old! We were born at a public meeting attended by around 100 people, held at Moseley Road Methodist Church on Monday, November 27th 2006. In an age when many people have such full work, family and social commitments it takes a lot to keep a [...]
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Moseley Road Methodist Church closed its doors for the last time yesterday. Here Steve Beauchampé looks back at how the building has been so important to the Friends of Moseley Road Baths.
We’re very sad to hear that Moseley Road Methodist Church, opposite the Baths, will be closing its doors for good this weekend on the 15th May. The Church was built after the previous Methodist Church on the site was destroyed in bombing raids in 1940. There has been a Methodist Church on the site since [...]
Just as an update to our request for candidates in the local elections to send responses, we did in fact receive a handwritten letter from Andrew Hardie, the Conservative Candidate, a day after the election. As with some of the other responses, it was supportive of the facility, he has memories of swimming at the Baths, and he would like to ‘preserve, and indeed, widen its use after discussion with the Council, local GPs and schools.’ Unfortunately he fails to answer several of the questions we put to him.
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By Rachel | September 15, 2010
It appears that many councillors and council officers within Birmingham City Council are keen to transfer leisure services within Birmingham, including all swimming pools into a ‘Leisure Trust’. They are expected to vote on this in the coming months.
A Leisure Trust is essentially an independent body which will take the responsibility for providing the services that the council currently has a statutory duty to provide. Many councils currently use this model. Many reasons are cited for this, not least the ability to raise more funds that are currently unavailable to local authorities.
Also posted in Campaign, Leisure Trusts, Politics, Sparkhill Baths | Tagged B12, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, Campaign, FoMRB, Friends of Moseley Road Baths, Friends of Sparkhill Baths, Heritage, Leisure Trusts, Moseley Road, Mullaney, Swimming, Trusts |
I’m happy to share this article which has been compiled by John Newson from Balsall Heath is Our Planet…. BHIOP is an alliance of organisations and individuals in Balsall Heath, whose aim is to cut the neighbourhood’s carbon dioxide emissions. Our Action Plan identifies Moseley Road Baths as a site of importance for achieving carbon [...]
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The Guardian put out a request for readers’ photos on the theme ‘derelict’ last week. The result was a collection of some of the most heartbreaking pictures of buildings which are a shadow of their former glory.
Amongst the pictures was a photo from Emma Jones of the Gala Pool at Moseley Road Baths which you can view on the Guardian’s site. I’m not sure how I feel about it: the pool is absolutely gorgeous, even in its present state, and I think that the more publicity the building has the better, but it’s absolutely shameful that such a building remains in the ownership of Birmingham City Council in such a state. I feel embarrassed that my local pool should so frequently be on ‘most endangered’ and ‘most neglected’ lists, but it seems that our local politicians share no such concern.
Also posted in Birmingham, Building | Tagged B12, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, Campaign, FoMRB, Friends of Moseley Road Baths, Friends of Sparkhill Baths, Sparkhill, Sparkhill Pool, Swimming |
I’ve just come from a stall in Balsall Heath Library where we spent about half an hour talking with a group of young girls (amongst others) about Moseley Road Baths. To me, that chat really illustrated the importance of our Pool of Memories project. Almost all of the girls attend Heath Mount Primary School, one [...]
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