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19 Dec, 18 tweets, 9 min read
Britain's fondness for the Christmas season is timeproof

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1900: How much is that doggie in the window? In simpler times, shoppers in London on Christmas Eve

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1926: A group of carol singers in Dickensian costumes entertaining passers-by in Muswell Hill. Ah, the days before social distancing...

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1928: Young chefs parade a 6ft Christmas pudding at the Berkeley Hotel. This year, the Berkeley's restaurant is closed, due to tier 3 restrictions. Bah humbug

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1926: A London sorting office, where workers processed mail the old-fashioned way. This year, our Post Office is having itself a nightmare before Christmas, thanks to a Covid-induced backlog

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1929: A giant Christmas cracker containing an Austin car on show in a Wanstead motor depot, with a very jolly passenger

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1930: Father Christmas arriving at Croydon Airport, Britain's first major international airport. These days, a museum stands in its place

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1932: Bertram Mills providing a Christmas banquet for a group of circus performers at Kensington's Olympia. None of that frivolity this year

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1934: These days, you'd be pulled over for a stunt like this. But here was a family driving from Lowesoft to London for Christmas; the dog travelling in the baby's pram, strapped to the back of the car

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1935: Good old Saint Nick handing out toys to children on the barges of Brentford, Essex. Much of Essex is now in tier 3

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1938: Kids enjoying a festive party in the dining car of an LMS train (London, Midland and Scottish Railway; now defunct) while travelling home for Christmas

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1939: Children these days aren't grafters like this

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1940: World War II was now underway. And these female factory workers were busy at their sewing machines, donning Christmas hats. We commend them

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1942: Members from the women's branch of the British Army on their toboggan at a gun site in London, clearly having a blast

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1950: Children unwrapping their presents on Christmas morning. Is there a purer joy than this?

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1955: Crystal stars made of aluminium to give the effect of a snowstorm in London's Regent Street. Lovely

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1956: At a loose end, taxi drivers outside North Road Station in Plymouth where there had been heavy snow and no customers

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1960: And last but not least, as we reach the Sixties; carol singers on a London street at Christmas. Back when snow was normal at this time of year

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