A group of friends pictured at Escape Into The Park 2002 (Image: SWEP)
Fancy a trip down memory lane? We've taken a look through our archives to reminisce on what life was like in Swansea back in the early noughties. And we've uncovered some amazing pictures giving a glimpse at what was going on in the city back then.
Families enjoying a day out at the old Swansea Leisure Centre
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Swansea College students stepped out for Children in Need. The students who studied the B Tec National Diploma Early Years course, walked from the college in Tycoch to Swansea City Centre
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Traders in the Castleton Walk shopping arcade, The Mumbles - the seaside corner of Swansea where actress Catherine Zeta Jones was born and brought up - get into the wedding spirit on Saturday November 18 2000
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Dean Williams from Craig Cefn Parc was one of many youngsters who enjoyed the first week of Summer holidays fun for local youngsters at Pontardawe's leisure centre. Pictured enjoying the bouncy castle are Pontardawe girl Nia Sudale and leisure centre playworker Alison Craig in November 2002
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Xizhe Yuan, aged 14, gained an A-Level in Pure Maths at Swansea College in August 2002
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The second Celebration of Community Spirit held at the Townhill and Phoenix Centres, Swansea in 2005
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The Kingsway pictured in 2004
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Staff from Tesco Marina store in Swansea who took part in a sponsored walk in the city centre in aid of the Whizz Kids charity in 2006
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Then eleven-year-old Clase Primary School, Swansea pupil Amy Bowen sampling some of the home made cakes that went on sale at the school for the Baglan fund-raising appeal for the 2003 Urdd Eisteddfod
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The 'Hangover' ride towers above Swansea's Castle Square during the white knuckle ride weekend
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Visitors to W H Smith in Swansea's Quadrant Centre and staff members, had the chance to enter their names into the Guinness Book of Records. To launch the 2002 edition of the volume attempts were made to break the World cream cracker eating record of 82.36 seconds and the sweet corn eating record of three minutes
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A balloon seller in Oxford Street, Swansea in 2004
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Secretary of Fairfield Social Club, Townhill, Mark Stephens (centre), leads members on a fundraising walk from Swansea City centre to the Chemotherapy Unit at Singleton Hospital as part of the Evening Post Cancer Appeal in 2002
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A group of friends pictured at Escape Into The Park 2002
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Mas Carnival makes its way down Walter Road in 2005
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Moordekkers and Pibau Preseli taking part in the Pontardawe Festival procession
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The final Swansea Harriers Seaside 5K Series race of 2002 starting at Blackpill. Series winner was harrier Darren Hiscox
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Sales managers of the Outfit family fashion store in Fforestfach, Swansea Andrew Thomas and Marc Howells had their locks cropped to raise cash for the Swansea branch of the Samaritans charity in 2006
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Competitors at the start of the annual Mumbles Raft Race in 2003 from Norton to Knab Rock
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Spectators lined the shore to watch the annual Mumbles Raft Race in 2003
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Students and Lecturers at the start of the Swansea College fancy dress sponsored walk from Blackpill to Mumbles and back in 2006
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Penyrheol Light Operatic Society members Ian Reece, Gemma Harris, Joanne Griffiths, Rosie Cottle, Tim Williams and Simon John wait backstage before the performance of the famous Broadway musical Sweet Charity at the Taliesin Theatre, Swansea in 2006
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The old Parc Tawe Retail Park layout is pictured as a group poses as part of the Safe Child Scheme
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The cement run to the top of Kilvey Hill in 2005
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The Christmas shopping rush in its final days at High Street, Swansea
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How Swansea once looked
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Swansea city centre full with Christmas shoppers in December 2004
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First year Certificate of Child Care Education students at Swansea College, Tycoch donned fancy dress for a fund raising morning in the city centre to collect cash for the Children in Need appeal in November 2006
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The leading Prutour cycle group passes County Hall, Swansea, en route to the city centre
