From the 14th to the 18th of July I’ve been on a magical experience at the Moor Pool Heritage Trust. I’ve been working in the Moor Pool Estate Office and it has been great!
Originally I thought Moor Pool would be the average city type of area like Northfield (an area I’m familiar with). I was expecting a more urban area with little greenery and full of loud noises, which drive a person mad. I was proven wrong the moment I set foot near Wentworth Gate. Everything was so calming, quiet and awe-inspiring that I was simply blown away! Everyone was very polite and quiet and completely different to what I’m used to close to home.
When I first arrived at the office I was worried and anxious to meet everyone but I was once again mistaken when I was welcomed with open arms. The work I’ve been getting on with has been very fun! Helping with the minibeasts trail, writing documents and helping come up with new ideas for autumn and summer activities, writing this blog, reading diary entries and even helping out on an allotment! All of the work I’ve done has been so rewarding and new to me and I’ve enjoyed it all so much!
My favourite part was definitely helping out at the allotments. I helped pick potatoes, rhubarb, onions and even a cucumber! I definitely got dirty and my arms were sore afterwards but seeing all of the fresh veg I helped pull out for others definitely helped me to forget all my worries.
Another one of my favourites was reading the diary entries of Mary Saunders, a former Moor Pool resident, in the collection. Learning about her life experiences in 1959 was extraordinary! The films she went to see at the cinema were both wacky yet awe-inducing. Seeing and hearing of something dated that far back is so interesting to me, and reading all about it as well as recording it down on paper was very interesting and definitely kept my mind busy for a long while. An example of one of the films she went to see was called The Shaggy Dog (1959). It’s all about a teenage boy being turned into a dog by the power of an old ring. If you’re interested in this film, you can watch a clip here!
I strongly believe that working here for my work experience was a great learning curve for me and I strongly recommend that more should come to work here too! Keeping the heritage of the Moor Pool Estate alive is key and I think that if more people came to work here as work experience then the success of keeping this place how it was in 1910 would be much easier. I hope that by reading this blog that a few people may become inspired and may want to help, maybe in volunteering or even coming here for work experience just like I have.
Mia G, July 2025
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37 The Circle, Harborne,
Birmingham, B17 9DY
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