• Welcome to this forum . We are a worldwide group with a common interest in Birmingham and its history. While here, please follow a few simple rules. We ask that you respect other members, thank those who have helped you and please keep your contributions on-topic with the thread.

    We do hope you enjoy your visit. BHF Admin Team

Nechells Baths

bazz im sure i took one of the seats will just go and look if not i will get them next time...
 
thanks bri but to be fair it looks even better in the flesh..if you get what i mean and tours of the baths and the pool are availabe at no charge so if anyone is interested at a future date it can be arranged...quite handy really as the villa tavern is opposite lol..

lyn
 
Thanks for posting the photos Lyn it is so nice to see the inside after passing it every day, I sit at the traffic lights looking at the outside and think wot a wonderful building and the inside is not a dissapointment, they have done such a good job, thanks again Lyn and I look forward to the next lot.
 
most welcome marie...there cant be many old baths around that people work in like this one...i found it most unusual and herigate were really strict as to what could be done and couldnt....will post some more next week...

lyn
 
hi el stano as long as they were happy memories thats the main thing....cant wait to see the swimming pool next week and hopefully the old living quarters...i may ask ann to take a pic of me standing in the middle of it..the swimming pool that is lol..

lyn
 
dont know if anyone knew this but meetings and conferences were held in the swimming pool...im not joking...they would drain it first of course..there is a pic of such a meeting which i will take a snap of next week..how unusual..
 
I remember that when I worked for Claribel Coaches 1966-1968 I used to pick up children from St Mary & St Margarets school in Castle Bromwich and take them swimming at Nechells Baths.
 
Lyn, thanks for that. You're a star. And yes, how surreal to think that people work in there now.
 
lol john..might have guessed you would notice that...

bazz i take it you want pics of the benches in the boys cubicles....not the girls....lol...

lyn
 
just to give you an idea...work goes on with the swimming pool remaining perfectly intact below..
 

Attachments

  • nechells baths 037.JPG
    nechells baths 037.JPG
    571.6 KB · Views: 19
Last edited:
Isn't it great to see a refurb that's so sympathetically done. Seeing the tiles all around and the woodwork in the entrances feels nicely familiar. Glad to see the hairdryer shelf, must have used that shelf many, many times (well I'm assuming it's the one that was there 45 years ago!). And agree with you Lyn that it's good to hear it's a building that's being fully used and in a more flexible way day to day. That's often the only way we can retain these buildings. This looks like a success story. Viv.

Ps still looking for that swimming pass.
 
hi viv...yes i agree that this building has really not changed...heritage were most insistant about that i am pleased to say..even down to the hooks that you hung your clothes on in the cubicles..i will also get some shots of those next week and yes that hair dryer shelf would be the one you used...hope you find that swimming pass viv...

lyn
 
Hi Astoness great photos of the old baths thank you for posting them, I used to use the swimming baths as a kid as I lived in the area, then I suddenly realize that I had some photos of the day it was newly opened by Carl Chinn I think it was on 17/2/2006. as this is my first post to this site I am hoping I can get the photo on for you all to see.
pudding

Carl_Chinn_.jpg
 
hi pudding and a warm welcome to the forum...what a great way to start posting with a pic of our carl at the opening of the baths....

thanks for sharing it with us and enjoy the forum....

lyn
 
Hi Pudding

Welcome, I thought you were a member here already, great photo.

Phil
 
Hi Lyn & Phil & all, thank you for the welcome. I do have more photos of the baths like the one I have posted above if I can locate
them in the mean time I will post this one it not taken by me.it was on the net many years ago.
The swimming pool minus the water

pudding
Nechells_Baths_minus_the_water.jpg
 
wow thats a cracking pic pudding....to think i will be standing in those baths next week...

lyn
 
Hi all I have found some of the pic's that I had taken on the day of the opening, there are more when I can get my hand's on them

Refurbish_Nechells_baths_2006_.jpg



New_side_entrance_.jpg

pudding
 
Hi Lyn & Phil & all, thank you for the welcome. I do have more photos of the baths like the one I have posted above if I can locate
them in the mean time I will post this one it not taken by me.it was on the net many years ago.
The swimming pool minus the water
View attachment 70479
pudding

Great photo Pudding. It all looks much brighter than I remember it. When we went here with the school, if you had a note from home to excuse you from swimming lessons, you were allowed to sit on that balcony and watch the lesson. Also remember those ladies rubber swimming caps. Always seemed too big. Couldn't quite see the point of them? They never kept your hair dry. Consequently spent a long time queuing for and using the hairdryer. Then we'd make the school bus late to take us back to school. Not intentional of course! Viv.
 
smashing pics pudding...my pics on post 27 is how your pic on post 57 looks now...the old boiler room...

cheers

lyn
 
Great photo Pudding. It all looks much brighter than I remember it. When we went here with the school, if you had a note from home to excuse you from swimming lessons, you were allowed to sit on that balcony and watch the lesson. Also remember those ladies rubber swimming caps. Always seemed too big. Couldn't quite see the point of them? They never kept your hair dry. Consequently spent a long time queuing for and using the hairdryer. Then we'd make the school bus late to take us back to school. Not intentional of course! Viv.

My senior school used Nechells Baths as well - I remember it well.

I was in the 'width' swimmers and we used to have the lady instructor at the baths (as opposed to the beginners and the length swimmers who had a teacher from our school). She was very butch looking - anyone else remember her? This was in the mid 60's.

It was always a rush at the end of the lesson to get dry and dressed before the bus came to take us back to the school!
Happy days?!
 
Hello Pud nice to see you posting on here welcome may I say in the best possible taste about time too.Dek
 
Nice to see the building from the front I always drive past it from the side, great photos thanks for posting them.
 
Pudding. Thanks for posting those lovely pictures. And Lyn too for starting all this off. Look forward to seeing many more. Cheers guys (and lassies Lyn).
 
Back
Top