Saving Moseley Road Baths

World Monuments Fund’s support of a community-led movement to protect, conserve, and steward Moseley Road Baths, a Grade II* listed Edwardian swimming complex in Birmingham, England, led to a major milestone in March 2018: the Birmingham City Council, with a coalition of community groups and heritage organizations, agreed on a plan to keep community members swimming at the Baths while beginning an extensive program of maintenance and repair.
Moseley Road Baths embodies Birmingham’s architectural, social, and industrial heritage. It tells the story of the rise of the working class in 20th-century England and the lives of people who lived there. Of equal importance is the role the Baths play in the local community today, as a cherished, safe, and therapeutic space to be among family, friends, and neighbors.

[@metalman4141]

Ok so what’s happened since then ?

[@roddickgreg]

Birmingham council had several working Victorian/Edwardian baths, though not quite as glamorous as mosely road. They, quite recently, decided to shut almost all of them down because they were "old"; total vandalism. Tiverton, Erdington et al

[@heliotropezzz333]

Bunch of philistines.

[@fay-amieaspen6046]

I know it's disgusting that these buildings didn't have the investment put into them especially as Swimming is beneficial & fun for everyone. It's terrible that in closing the baths around Birmingham, children have gone without the regular weekly Swimming Lessons as part of the P.E activities in Schools & Colleges. It's another reason why childhood obesity and unfitness is rocketing because the public Swimming Baths & Leisure Centres are not being maintained. But to lose these beautiful historical buildings is terrible.