CHRISTMAS IN LONDON.
London, Dec; 29. Christmas Day in London was cheerless as far as the weather was concerned. The city looked dreaty under sheets of sleety rain that fell continuously. All over the countryside storms of snow were falling. But peace and plenty and happiness everywhere characterised the festive season.
The Royal Family gathered at Sandringham to celebrate the day. There was a huge Christ mas tree, 40ft high. The majority of the nobility honoured Christmas at home, although there was a great exodus of city people to the Continent. The iurush of Americans and Canadians was particularly large this year. The poor in the suburbs of London were provided with puddings and presents as a result of newspaper appeals. Mr Will Crooks, the beloved of Poplar, visited the local workhouse, and after remarking that many of them there would remember him as a poor lad in kuicker bockers sang, “When we Were Boys Together.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1048, 9 January 1913, Page 2
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156CHRISTMAS IN LONDON. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1048, 9 January 1913, Page 2
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