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 into Russ’ wonderful soup!
We had lots of people coming up and looking at our stalls, finding out more about our Pool of Memories project as well as looking through our exhibition.
We were also lucky enough to be able to display Margaret Braithwaite’s lovely paintings of Moseley Road Baths.
The feedback from the tours of the building was excellent, with many people never having ventured beyond Pool 2. Both Steve and Mark gave tours which took in the slipper baths, the boiler room and the laundry room.
Meanwhile, I had a lovely time chatting with people about their memories of Moseley Road Baths. Eileen, pictured below, lived two doors down from the Baths between 1960 and 1964 and vividly remembers attending dances there, swimming with friends, and even using the Baths. She also told us the story of when Billy Fury came to stay next door at what is now the Gurdwara!
Thanks so much to all who attended, to the members of Victoria Baths who kindly came along, to everyone who held a stall at the event, to our volunteers for their hard work and of course to the long suffering members of the Friends of Moseley Road Baths Committee who put so much work into the day!