Getty Photographer Peter Macdiarmid has taken pictures of London during Christmas in the past and superimposed them over the modern day – creating a magical look at London’s Christmas Past.
Check out the gallery below:
Turkeys are auctioned at Smithfield meat market for Christmas trade on December 21, 1968
The Christmas tree in St Paul’s Cathedral, London, which was brought from the royal estates at Windsor on December 19, 1950
Christmas decorations consisting mainly of snow crystal stars made of aluminium to give the effect of a snowstorm are displayed on Regent Street on November 30, 1955
Selfridges Department Store on Oxford Street is lit up by Christmas decorations on December 6, 1935
Two policemen regard London’s 64ft Christmas tree, a gift from Norway, illuminated in Trafalgar Square in front of the National Gallery on December 1, 1948
Father Christmas is surrounded by excited schoolchildren as he arrives at the Arding and Hobbs department store on November 2, 1926, in Clapham Junction, London
Members of British Parliament singing Christmas carols in St. Margaret’s Westminster via BBC Radio to American congressmen on December 1945
Stable companions appear in ‘Song of the Drum’ at the Drury Lane Theatre at Endell Street on December 30, 1933
Father Christmas dons a tin hat during World War II as he makes his way down Regent Street on December 23rd 1940
Students of King’s College sing Christmas carols outside the Old Curiosity Shop, as immortalised by Charles Dicken, on Portsmouth Street, London, on December 12th 1956
Christmas turkeys hanging outside a poulterers in Watling Street in December 1923
Sandbags protect a shop window at Selfridges during the first Christmas of World War II on December 16, 1939
Source: Getty Images.
Beautiful images – thank you for posting these evocative photos.
Thanks. Happy New year!