Everything for Christmas
HE last market before Christmas is a great day ‘" for London’s Caledonian Market. The place is packed with people, all searching for last-minute presents, for food and flowers, and Christmas trees. The rows of tall young firs are often dusted with teal snow as they stand there, awaiting a buver.
There are lorries selling nothing but boxes of Christmas crackers, and stalls full of them; also you can buy large, ornate boxes of chocolates for a shilling or two; festoons and silver decorations for the Christmas tree, bunches of holly and mistletoe, and wreaths of holly berries or decorations, tall red candles for the table, gold and silver leaves.
And the most amazing collection of toys. This was the place to buy toys. Sometimes old craftsmen made doll’s furniture out of plain wood, which you can paint yourself, doll’s houses, dolls in every size and shape, doll’s prams and pushchairs, children’s bikes and tricycles. There will be no Caledonian Market this Christmas. The market has been closed since the war. But when I look back on it, perhaps my most vivid memory is of that cheery Christmas crowd, laden with parcels, with turkeys and holly and mistletoe and Christmas trees, with crackers and toys. — (Nelle Scanlan, "Shoes and Ships and Sealing-wax," 2YA, November 12.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 75, 29 November 1940, Page 5
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217Everything for Christmas New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 75, 29 November 1940, Page 5
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