Other facilities included a table tennis room, also on the upper floor, and a small snooker table housed in the converted garage on the ground floor. The hall itself was rarely used for youth club activities as it was frequently utilised by other organisations based on the church congregation.

One of these organisations was the Old Boy’s association of 2nd. Bangor Boy’s Brigade Company which had entered a football side in the Old Boys League in the late i960s. This side latter renamed itself as Bangor Amateurs and went on to establish themselves in the First Division of the Northern Amateur League.

In an effort to expand the activities of the Guild, the Youth Leader, the late Gus Addy, arranged a football match against the pupils of Rathgael Special School. Gus had been encouraged in pursuing this venture by a group of mainly Bangor Grammar school pupils who were not members of the Boy’s brigade. At the rugby playing school they were deprived of playing organised football and had to content themselves with kickabouts in the playground.

The match they had all been waiting for took place on 12 September 1970 and proved to be a great success with the Youth Guild winning by a 2 v 1 margin. Michael Montgomery, younger brother of long time member Kenny Montgomery scored the first goal for the Club and the second was scored by Billy Batten whose brother went on to be manager of rivals Bangor Rangers.

Before the end of 1970, another three friendly matches were arranged; these were all against Skipperstone Boys Club, several of whose members went on to form Castle United. It is interesting to note that the third goal for the Club was one of the few scored by long serving Secretary, Peter Vannucci. There was no further activity on the football field until the March of 1971 when a return fixture was played against Rathgael School.

Below is an aerial view of the pitch at Rathgael where the Wesley Centenary Youth Guild played their first ever match. The pitch is in the centre of the view, while the Newtownards Road runs accross the top, the Bangor Ring Road down the left and the Rathgael Road down the right of the photo. The Rathgael school complex, including the swimming pool where the team had a dip after the match, is in the centre at the bottom of the view. This are will shortly be built over as a housing development is planned for the site and a big bit of the Swifts history will be lost for ever.