What do you remember about growing up in Cardiff?

Learning to swim at Guildford Crescent or the open-air pool in Llandaff Fields? Playing Mousetrap, or listening to LPs in your bedroom? Perhaps you met your best friend on your first day in school. Or saw the Bay City Rollers play at the Capitol?

The latest exhibition at the city's Old Library in the Hayes will send you hurrying up to the attic to dig out you own childhood mementos.

When We Were Young: Growing up in Cardiff explores memories of work, school, leisure and home life of young people in the capital over the past 150 years, bringing their stories to life with photos, toys, games, school books and mementos, including favourite teddy bears and catapults, Rubik's cubes and Spacehoppers.

The exhibition is the latest phase in Cardiff Council's project to create a museum about the life and history of the city.

The council's Exhibitions Officer Victoria Rogers says: "It's been great fun pulling this exhibition together because everyone has got something that they've kept since they were young, things that they never dreamed would end up in a museum one day.

"People have loaned us all sorts of things, not just their old games and photos," she added.

"We've even had a set of Carmen Rollers, used by the lender before many a night out, and an Adam and the Ants LP, which is sure to bring back memories of strutting around doing the Prince Charming dance!

"I hope that as the exhibition goes on people will add their own stories - including today's young people, so that the museum will have a contemporary account of what it's like to grow up in Cardiff in 2008."

Cllr Nigel Howells, Executive Member for Sport, Leisure and Culture, says plans are progressing to turn the Old Library into a permanent museum.

"The popularity of the exhibitions we've staged at the Old Library over the past three and a half years has proved that there's a real demand for a permanent museum about Cardiff," he says.

"So I'm pleased that we've secured the funding to move the project forward and open the first permanent gallery in 2010."

When We Were Young runs from 5 July 2008 to 28 March 2009. It's open Tuesdays to Saturdays, and admission is free.

For more information phone 029 2087 3389 or email museum@cardiff.gov.uk

See also www.cardiffmuseum.com

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