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Art Exhibition – Homage to Moseley Road Baths

By FoMRB | Published: 27/01/2011

Local artist Margaret Braithwaite has a long association with Moseley Road Baths in Balsall Heath. Her youngest son learnt to swim there in the 1980s and her admiration for this beautiful pool, a Grade 2* listed building, prompted her to create a set of paintings which will be on display at the Birmingham and Midland [...]

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A year of interviews

By Rachel | Published: 24/01/2011

Slowly, slowly we’re taking time to reflect on our Pool of Memories project in amidst the business of interviewing, cataloguing, book-writing and filming! Jen, our Volunteer Co-ordinator has written an update on our work over the past year since we received our funding on the ‘Pool of Memories’ website.  This site will be the main [...]

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Our first school project is complete

By Rachel | Published: 14/01/2011

We’ve had a great time on our oral history film project this week – it’s amazing how much we’ve managed to cram into just 15 hours! We’ve now got two short films, edited down from almost an hour of interviews, which we showed to all of Year 6 today. The reaction we got was great, [...]

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Pupils set to work filming

By Rachel | Published: 12/01/2011

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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Budding film makers

By Rachel | Published: 11/01/2011

Day two of our Pool of Memories project in schools and pupils spent the day learning how to use all the film and audio equipment and had chance to film and interview each other. The group set up all of the camera equipment and learnt about different shots and camera angles, how to use the [...]

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Pool of Memories school work is underway!

By Rachel | Published: 10/01/2011

We’re absolutely thrilled that after months of planning our oral history film work in schools is underway! The series of nine school projects involves local film maker and member of the Friends of Moseley Road Baths, Rachel Gillies, going into local schools and helping pupils to create short films, based on their research and filmed [...]

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A successful Memories and Memorabilia Day

By Rachel | Published: 02/11/2010

On Saturday we had another wonderful Memories and Memorabilia Day, our fourth successive annual event to mark the building’s birthday.  In total we took 59 people for tours of the Baths, we had a full room for Neil Bonner’s talk on Manchester’s Victoria Baths and lots of people left details, shared their memories and tucked [...]

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Last minute planning

By Rachel | Published: 28/10/2010

With only two days to go until our Memories and Memorabilia Day the Friends of Moseley Road Baths and our oral history volunteers are going into overdrive to ensure that all our visitors come away with that warm glow that we’ve managed to achieve in previous years!

Last night we finalised a lot of our displays after hours and hours spent going through our oral history audio recordings. I’ve been putting some of the best snippets together for visitors to have a listen to. Meanwhile I know that others are leafing through memory sheets, laminating stuff, mounting pictures, and in the case of the group from The Victoria Baths in Manchester plotting their trip down to deliver their talk… and you know what? It’s so exciting to be a part of it and to have the chance to share all of these fabulous memories with everyone! There are some real gems, I particularly like this one of local pupils on the campaign trail!

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Last year’s tour

By Rachel | Published: 08/10/2010

To get you warmed up for this year’s Memories and Memorabilia Day on 30th October, we wanted to share with you once again the excellent video that Alex Gamela and colleagues at HashBrum put together of the tour. Don’t forget that you will need to book this year’s tours in advance by e-mailing your preferred time to memories@friendsofmrb.co.uk or ringing us on 07967 093 256.

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Book a tour of the Baths

By Steve | Published: 29/09/2010

Memories and Memorabilia Day 2010 is almost upon us and will this year be held on Saturday, October 30th (the 103rd birthday of Moseley Road Baths) at the Mary Street Church Centre, corner of Edward Road/Mary Street, Balsall Heath (around 400 yards from the baths). The event runs from 11:30am-4:30pm.

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