From packed department stores and brightly lit shopping centres, to the angelic faces of children in school nativity plays and a very special flight to the ‘North Pole’, the festive spirit has sparkled through the decades. Here are some of the pictures which have made the memories.
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Members of Millfield High School band and choir rehearsing for a carol concert for the Royal Albert Hospital in Lancaster
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In 1989, the Gazette chartered a British Airways Santa flight to whisk families away to a winter wonderland where Santa broke off from his toy making to greet the excited youngsters on the aircraft
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A bustling town centre department store is pictured with all its Christmas wares as shoppers grabbed their last minute gifts in 1983
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Ready for take off, Santa seeking Gazette readers ready fortheir trip to the North Pole
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Clown Yuri provided festive entertainment for children at Charles Saer Primary School in December 1990