Flowers for the Bramley Baths Ballroom: Screen-printed Garlands

Discover the history of celebration at Bramley Baths in this hands-on screen-printing workshop with artist and florist Jenny.

A hundred years ago our pool looks very different, in fact sometimes there was no pool at all. In winter months when it was too expensive to heat the pool, it was drained and covered with a dance floor, transforming the Baths into a magnificent ballroom. This transformational tradition continued until 1961.

Margaret Lemon and Gillian Faulhaber who lived here at the Baths whilst their father, Mr. Pearce was manager shared a lovely ballroom memory; “We used to sit in the office and make hundreds of paper flowers. We hung them from baskets all in the ballroom, hundreds and hundreds all made from tissue. That was our job at that point, as the daughters of the manager (laughing).”

Inspired by these stories, we’ll explore the traditions of floral decoration, garlands and bunting,…