For nearly 60 years Swift has been a member or volunteer at Salford Lads Club, now open to girls and called Salford Lads and Girls Club. He was brought up on the same street as the club. "I used to sit on the doorstep and watch the officers coming in," he says. "The bowler hat brigade, as I used to call them. They were good, kind men, but they were also very strict."
The club was officially opened in 1904 by Robert Baden-Powell. Swift joined in September 1946, aged 12. "Even when I first joined I liked to work in the place - they used to give me bits of jobs to do," he says.
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