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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Looking back: Christmas – in pictures

Archive Christmas gallery: Christmas Carols Trafalgar Square
Boys of Donhead Lodge Choir, Wimbledon College, sing Christmas carols in Trafalgar Square in aid of Save the Children in 1967 Photograph: Peter Johns/Guardian
Archive Christmas gallery: Christmas in hospital for babies
Christmas in the surgical ward at the Duchess of York Hospital for Babies, 1957 Photograph: Guardian
Archive Christmas gallery: British Rail Father Christmas
Sleigh out of service Santa? Father Christmas at a train station in Surrey in 1962 Photograph: Jane Bown/Observer
Archive Christmas gallery: Children placing gifts
School children placing gifts under the Christmas tree in St Ann's Church, Manchester, 1957 Photograph: Guardian
Archive Christmas gallery: Buying Christmas trees
Customers buying record numbers of Christmas tress at Delamere Forest, Cheshire, 1969 Photograph: Tom Stuttard/Guardian
Archive Christmas gallery: Trading turkeys
Trading turkeys in Smithfield Market Manchester, 1967 Photograph: Robert Smithies/Guardian
Archive Christmas Gallery: Santa in the mirror
Trainee from a London school for Santas, 1958 Photograph: Jane Bown/Observer
Archive Christmas Gallery: Christmas lights
Christmas lights in Church Street, Liverpool in 1967 Photograph: Guardian
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