It was once one of the most successful clubs on the Swansea and West Wales football scene.
But one of the rooms is now littered with needles and drug paraphernalia.
Swansea Boys' Club is an an abandoned, eerie looking building overlooking the city, which is in a poor state.
The club first opened in 1922 and was a huge success in its day.
But it eventually folded and, in 2015, there were plans to turn its former home in Mayhill into a community centre hosting sports and social events.
That never happened, and now it appears to be a home only to drug users.
We visited the building and, as we walked around the rear, we found shattered glass on the grass.
Walking down a set of steps to enter the building we made the grim discovery of around a dozen used needles, foil, plastic wrappings, faeces as well as litter including empty cans of alcohol and cigarette butts.
The room itself is dark and gloomy and appears to have an old boiler in it.
In November, the property was on the market for £50,000, and around that time w e had a look inside the structure, which features several dark, old, and creepy rooms thought to have been vacant for more than a decade.
The property was previously owned by Swansea Council, but the local authority sold it in January, 2019.
In an article from 2003, Bob Popham, of West Cross , Swansea , spoke about his memories of a club that began its life after the chief constable of Swansea, FJ May, asked a comparative newcomer to the city if he would launch a boys’ club for the youngsters who lived in and around the tenement buildings and railway arches of the Strand.
Bob said he was a member of the Swansea Boys Club from a very young age.
“It first started up in the Ragged School in the town,” he said, “but then they built a new club on the hill.
“Pop Hopkins and his good wife spent most of their days there. They were like mother and father to the young lads that went there.
“He was there morning, noon and night and made men out of the hoodlums whose fathers were in the war and not always there when they were growing up.
“I remember if boys were fighting, Pop would give them a pair of boxing gloves so that they could sort it out in the ring.
“If boys were making a noise or behaving unruly in the showers, Mrs Hopkins would throw a bucket of cold water over the culprits and that would quieten them down.
“Yes, if ever anybody deserves an honour it’s Pop Hopkins for the untold good work he did for the boys of the hill.
“His memory should be honoured by the city of Swansea.
“Pop was truly a man amongst men and his family should be very proud of him and what he achieved.”
We are approaching the new owners of the building for comment.
