Mixed bathing at Kent Street Baths, Ladywood

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Date:23rd of September 1915

Description:On the afternoon of the 22nd September 1915 mixed bathing was trialed for the first time in Birmingham - at Kent Street Baths, but only in the first class facilities.

Picture and article from Picture World newspaper.


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1910s
Adverts from the Oratory Magazine.
Adverts from the Oratory Magazine.

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1930s
Broad Street in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Broad Street in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory

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1960s
Herbert Green returns to St Thomas' School
Herbert Green returns to St Thomas' School

Some ten years after the closure was announced St Thomas' Primary School finally ...

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