Tudor Grange Swimming Baths

I haven’t been to tudor grange for some years hence my looking on the site.
While the reviews are usefull i have to make a correction to some comments [in the nicest possible way]
Tudor grange is in Solihull.
Solihull is a Metropolitan Borough and IS NOT now nor has ever been in Birmingham.
A small point but a neccersay one [if you don’t want to get lynched by the locals! lol]
Postcodes are not geograhical.
Sorry for going slightly off subject.
I also believe that Solihull Council has recently refurbished the centre.

I visited here to go on the slides with my children (we’d seen them on the outside and they really wanted to try them) and had a huge shock. The building work I saw on my last visit to the park is now a huge new leisure centre and the old baths are fenced off ready for demolition. Well, our expectations were high as the automatic doors glided open for us and we approached a lovely bright, new reception area with comfy blue leather armchairs. My little girl was swiftly reduced to tears though when we were told there were no slides (or waves). This is a serious swimming facility. There only seemed to be mixed changing rooms too. There were loads of school lessons going on as well so we felt a bit marginalised. It’s a lovely building and obviously a lot of money has been spent on it, I saw signs for a steam room and spa, café bar, crèche and gym facility.
No real fun for us though, we definitely have had much better times at Stourbridge’s Crystal Leisure Centre, even though it’s fairly old (I’ve yet to visit Kidderminster Forest Glades which comes highly recommended) I think it’s been geared as an Olympic training centre– which is obviously great, just not what I was looking for on this occasion.

Tudor Grange has been standing for years now, and what was a great centre maybe 30 years ago, is becoming a dilapidated wreck nowadays. There’s an L shaped pool (similar to Boldmere) which means there is a diving pit (high boards), slides, and room for a seperate 25m pool. They hire out the pool to Solihull Swimming and waterpolo clubs on quite a few nights, so I’d advise you to ring up before turning up hoping to swim, because public swimming is only on certain nights.
It is good for what it is, gym, small café/​shop, vending machines etc etc, but it’s one of Birmingham’s sport centres that needs some attention!

This swimming baths is very popular with children as it has 3 or 4 fun slides that start in the pool, wrap around the outside of the building and then end back inside the pool. It also has 3 dive boards of different heights, a small childrens pool and a lane area. I think it is the only public swimming baths in Solihull, and so even though it is large, it is packed out at the weekends and holidays. However, it is moderatley quiet within working hours and suitable for lane swimming then. It is well maintained, although doesn’t have the best reputation for cleanliness.