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Christmas Traditions – What Were Yours Growing Up?
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NoddKD
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Tried it on the windows of my flat in Deal.It took until Easter to remove it.
Never again.
NoddKD
A glimpse of our late 1950s/early 1960s Christmas :
The front room - rarely used at any other time - was used to display the Chistmas tree, strategically placed near the window so the neighbours could see it. The tree came from the local greengrocers
The tree with a very random arrangement of tree decorations including Woolworth's multi-coloured bulb lights, some glass ornaments, a few clip-on birds and dripping with string tinsel (particulay on the sparse, upper branches !)
A tudor-style dining table set with lace doileys and nuts, graced by our BIG ceramic dog, proudly taking centre stage
A few balloons above the porthole mirror (that mirror seems completely out of reach of the average height adult!)
Concertina paper decorations strung criss-cross on the ceiling (out of view), crossing in the middle around the brass pendant electric candelabra
Freshly laundered antemacassers over the winged fireside chairs
Lighting the fire in the front room, (out of sight but next to the armchair - left) rarely lt, but an exception sometimes at Christmas
I'm holding a couple of gifts so this must be late Christmas Day or Boxing Day: a black fake poodle (there was poodle-mania at the time) and the cuckoo clock shaped box with the clock contained chocolate. The dress I'm wearing would have been a fancy one sent by my aunt in America. She sometimes shipped large boxes to us containing items which weren't easy get in the UK at the time, such as dresses in man-made fibre materials like the one in the photo.
The front room - rarely used at any other time - was used to display the Chistmas tree, strategically placed near the window so the neighbours could see it. The tree came from the local greengrocers
The tree with a very random arrangement of tree decorations including Woolworth's multi-coloured bulb lights, some glass ornaments, a few clip-on birds and dripping with string tinsel (particulay on the sparse, upper branches !)
A tudor-style dining table set with lace doileys and nuts, graced by our BIG ceramic dog, proudly taking centre stage
A few balloons above the porthole mirror (that mirror seems completely out of reach of the average height adult!)
Concertina paper decorations strung criss-cross on the ceiling (out of view), crossing in the middle around the brass pendant electric candelabra
Freshly laundered antemacassers over the winged fireside chairs
Lighting the fire in the front room, (out of sight but next to the armchair - left) rarely lt, but an exception sometimes at Christmas
I'm holding a couple of gifts so this must be late Christmas Day or Boxing Day: a black fake poodle (there was poodle-mania at the time) and the cuckoo clock shaped box with the clock contained chocolate. The dress I'm wearing would have been a fancy one sent by my aunt in America. She sometimes shipped large boxes to us containing items which weren't easy get in the UK at the time, such as dresses in man-made fibre materials like the one in the photo.
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