As the Christmas lights start to twinkle, Peter Grant opens up a special photo album featuring Yuletides of Yesteryear
IT IS impossible to ignore, Merseyside has started to make merry . . . the seasonal switch-ons, the opening of glittering grottos and our shops delightfully dripping in decorations have declared the festive season is officially here.
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Margaret Beaman meets Father Christmas who is driving a 1927 motor to deliver presents in Liverpool
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The most talked about grotto in Liverpool- Blacklers' . The giant Santa remains a golden memory for so many children
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23 nov 1962 - illuminated crackers strech away uphill from the junction with paradise st
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Talking turkey in the market, December 1967
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A toast at the Mersey Bar Captain Nicholas Burns of the lightship Planet and 'Santa Claus' - Captain John French of the tug Trafalgar
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In 1958 these cars looked like Christmas cakes and snowcats might have been more suitable vehicles
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Bob Paisley with Graeme Souness, Bob Boulder and Phil Neal at the LFC Supporters' Club children's party in 1983
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Festive fun in Fazakerley, 1956, for orphans from Liverpool Cottage Homes
At the Daily Post, we have captured the ghosts of Christmases past every year, thanks to our team of photographers.
They were out and about braving the snow blizzards, warming to school Nativity plays and snapping the arrival of Santa Claus by train, plane, boats and automobiles.
Oh, deer . . . and don’t forget his driving pal, Rudolf.
In our new publication, A Very Mersey Christmas – A Stocking Full of Memories, you will find 100 years of festive fun with pictures, poems and even old advertisements from the archives of the Daily Post and Echo.
Turn these 84 pages and you will go back in time to the turn of the century.
