Baths fight is taken to doorstep
Campaigners fighting to save condemned Coseley baths are canvassing door-to-door as time runs out for them to beat the bulldozer.
They have been out on the streets of Coseley, Sedgley and Gornal to ask voters to make their feelings known at the ballot box at the next local elections.
Spokesman for the Save Coseley Baths group Brian Guest said protesters had collected more than 500 signatures on their first outing, with a further trip planned for this weekend.
"The feeling on the doorsteps was very frank. In all my years I have never known such strong anti-council feeling as this," he said.
Coseley baths will close on August 31. Dudley Council says the pool in Pear Tree Lane needs £2 million of repairs including £1 million of urgent work to make the roof safe.
Protesters opposing the closure were angered this week when it emerged taxpayers will have to foot the £7 million bill to relocate the borough's archives.
Coseley East ward member Councillor Susan Ridney criticised the council and questioned why bosses could find the cash for a new archives building but not to save the baths.
And Mr Guest added: "Everything this council does is a shambles."
