This photo gallery is packed with festive cheer and Christmas sparkle as it brings together a host of festive images from Liverpool and Merseyside, going back to 1930.
Christmas decorations, carol singing, shopping scenes, winter wonderlands and a deserted Covid Christmas all feature in this trip down memory lane.
5. A look back at Christmas in Liverpool
Nurses and a patients at the Liverpool Stanley Hospital at Christmas, 1937. A nurse next to the enormous Christmas tree is holding up a toy dog, probably to get the childrens’ attention for the photo - a tactic that has often been deployed for festive family photographs over the years! Photo: National Museums Liverpool
6. A look back at Christmas in Liverpool
Christmas lunch for gunners of 289th Battery, 93rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, at New Ferry in 1940. Photo: Mr Taylor, War Office official photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
7. A look back at Christmas in Liverpool
Two sailors carrying the Christmas tree and holly for Christmas festivities at Gladstone Dock, Liverpool. Photo: Royal Navy official photographer, Tomlin, H W
8. A look back at Christmas in Liverpool
Cinderella’s carriage drawn by six white horses at Blackler’s toy fair at Fleet Street Warehouse, Christmas 1949. Photo: National Museums Liverpool