Birmingham gay swimming club

It's under threat of closure and they're backing a campaign to save it. Meet the Moseley Shoals. Gay Village Index. Birmingham Pride Index Useful links. Moseley Road Swimming Pool. Moseley Shoals website. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites. Dalziel and Pascoe filmed in the public washrooms of Moseley Road Pool.

Staff believe the ghost of Len the Boilerman still has a presence at the pool.

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The pool only used to be used for swimming from April to October - at other times it was boarded over and used for dances and boxing matches. The original steam powered boiler was fuelled by coal rather than gas as it is now. It was either that or the 12 people in Speedos and bikinis pushing around shopping trolleys cunningly disguised as 8 foot fish, birmingham attracted the attention of BBCi is difficult to decide, but when a reporter comes up to you and says.

I've been wanting to do an article about you and your pool for the BBC. Just who are The Moseley Shoals? Who am I? Who are the Shoals? Well, our pool is in need of a lot of repairs and under threat of closure. Moseley Road Swimming Pool is where our group started, back in April A friend of Mark Hillier and myself, who organizes the Gay Outdoors Club West Midlands, asked if we would be swimming in starting a gay swim group for Birmingham and the Midlands area.

Gay alternative to the 'scene'. So, we did! Mark and I both work with Switchboard Birmingham and understand that there is more to gay life and identity than the 'scene'. Starting in a public session, word of mouth and a few regular adverts in the 'Zone' and free magazines, soon grew this group to a regular crowd of about 15 on Mondays.

The Midland's largest social gay group. We were surprised and delighted when the pool staff approached us with the offer of a private session that had become available. From these beginnings the group has swollen to a regular Monday crowd of about 30 people, with an overall membership of about 80, making us, as far as we know, the Midland's largest social gay group.

Such was our popularity at the pool, that soon after we were offered our Sunday lunchtime session as well.