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:

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
Source: Getty Images.
Beautiful images – thank you for posting these evocative photos.
Thanks. Happy New year!