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

Christmas History

By Jonathan Thomas

Dec 24, 2014

getty-regents-stre_3144832k — 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

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

Christmas in London: Check out These Magical Images that Show Modern London Superimposed with London’s Christmas Past — Turkeys are auctioned at Smithfield meat market for Christmas trade on December 21, 1968

Christmas in London: Check out These Magical Images that Show Modern London Superimposed with London’s Christmas Past — The Christmas tree in St Paul’s Cathedral, London, which was brought from the royal estates at Windsor on December 19, 1950

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

Christmas in London: Check out These Magical Images that Show Modern London Superimposed with London’s Christmas Past — Selfridges Department Store on Oxford Street is lit up by Christmas decorations on December 6, 1935

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

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

Christmas in London: Check out These Magical Images that Show Modern London Superimposed with London’s Christmas Past — Members of British Parliament singing Christmas carols in St. Margaret’s Westminster via BBC Radio to American congressmen on December 1945

Christmas in London: Check out These Magical Images that Show Modern London Superimposed with London’s Christmas Past — Stable companions appear in ‘Song of the Drum’ at the Drury Lane Theatre at Endell Street on December 30, 1933

Christmas in London: Check out These Magical Images that Show Modern London Superimposed with London’s Christmas Past — Father Christmas dons a tin hat during World War II as he makes his way down Regent Street on December 23rd 1940

Christmas in London: Check out These Magical Images that Show Modern London Superimposed with London’s Christmas Past — 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 in London: Check out These Magical Images that Show Modern London Superimposed with London’s Christmas Past — Young men dressed as Santa Claus wait for a bus in Holborn on December 1960

Christmas in London: Check out These Magical Images that Show Modern London Superimposed with London’s Christmas Past — Christmas turkeys hanging outside a poulterers in Watling Street in December 1923

Christmas in London: Check out These Magical Images that Show Modern London Superimposed with London’s Christmas Past — Sandbags protect a shop window at Selfridges during the first Christmas of World War II on December 16, 1939

Source: Getty Images.

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2 COMMENTS

Stefanie Dec 30, 2014 At 11:29 am

Beautiful images – thank you for posting these evocative photos.
Anatoli Frost.Fb Dec 30, 2014 At 7:44 pm

Thanks. Happy New year!

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