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'It was just like a secret world. Nobody went in and nobody came out...'.(Features)

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From: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
Date: 20070908
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Byline: By Gerry Holt South Wales Echo

Sixty years ago today Cardiff Castle might have looked the same as it does now, but there was one important difference.

The gates were locked.

Whatever the talk on the street corner of splendid banquets and gleaming treasures, what went on behind the castle's menacing wooden doors was largely a mystery to the people of the city.

Like Frances Hodgson Burnett's Secret Garden, nobody went in and nobody came out.

In fact, curator of the castle for 17 years Matthew Williams says it would even have been hard to ...

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