Ceremonial key to Kingstanding Swimming Baths

The silver key used to open Kingstanding Swimming Baths (1938), now in Birmingham Museums' collection.

A presentation key with a long engraved shaft and a circular bow bearing the enamelled arms of the City of Birmingham inside a laurel wreath, of the kind given to the dignitary who formally opened a new public building.

Notes

Flickr title 'Ceremonial key to Kingstanding Swimming Baths', accession number 2007.0843, posted by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (2012). The Baths on Warren Farm Road opened in March 1938 (Birmingham Gazette report 'The Lord Mayor dives in', noted in earlier hunt). The key's inscription is not legible at this size; ask BMT for the full record and opening date.

About this place: Kingstanding Baths