Christmas in London: Check out These Magical Images that Show Modern London Superimposed with London’s Christmas Past

Dec 24, 2014 By Jonathan

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:

The statue of Lord Beaconsfield stands in a dusting of snow in front of the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben on December 24th 1938

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

Young men dressed as Santa Claus wait for a bus in Holborn on December 1960

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.

Author: jonathan

Jonathan is a consummate Anglophile who launched Anglotopia.net in 2007 to channel his passion for Britain. Londontopia is its sister publication dedicated to everything London.

About jonathan

Jonathan is a consummate Anglophile who launched Anglotopia.net in 2007 to channel his passion for Britain. Londontopia is its sister publication dedicated to everything London.

Comments

Stefanie says

Dec 30, 2014 at 11:29 am

Beautiful images – thank you for posting these evocative photos.
Anatoli Frost.Fb says

Dec 30, 2014 at 7:44 pm

Thanks. Happy New year!