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Shirley Bourge grew up in Adamsdown using Guilford Crescent Pool. She is now Swimming Development Officer
There was no modern games, you either played whip and top or statues over Newtown on the Steps or mob up the cemetery. A lot of the local children we used to go to the round-y ring, in front of the City Hall, it's square now, but one of the games you would play would be to lift up the chain and try to run around before the chain stopped swinging. And then you would go and make your daisy chains and things. We would then walk across to the Castle for Jam sandwiches. Also on Kingsway there was this font and it said 'whoever drink of the water will never thirst again' and then there was a chain with a cup. All of us used to go and drink it and then refused to admit we were thirsty again an hour later because we thought we weren't supposed to get thirsty again.
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