Black and white original image showing the bowling green and the main hospital entrance and water tower in the background.

AI generated image from the original black and white photograph

AI generated image from the original black and white photograph

AI generated image from the original black and white photograph

What an #ArchiveAdventCalendar Thank you @arascot.bsky.social for all the hard work
#MerryChristmas
Hope you’ve had a good day, whatever that looks like. A tough day for many for lots of reasons.

AI ➡️ original b & w 📷 (1970s/80s). Original (thanks Tony for saving this & more) & AI gen images

A very #MerryChristmas to all of our followers and supporters. We hope you have a restful few days and we will be back in the New Year!

#Archives #Dundee #ArchiveAdventCalendar

Christmas female "teezle" figure dressed in a red dress edged with a green ribbon decorated with holly and horses and sleigh and a seasonal mop cap. The figure is holding knitting needles and a small piece of knitting in white wool.

Christmas female "teezle" figure dressed in a red dress edged with a green ribbon decorated with holly and horses and sleigh and a seasonal mop cap. The figure is holding knitting needles and a small piece of knitting in white wool.

Christmas female "teezle" figure dressed in a red dress edged with a green ribbon decorated with holly and horses and sleigh and a seasonal mop cap. The figure is holding knitting needles and a small piece of knitting in white wool.

This "Talented Teezle" is called Holly Chestnut. She is so beautiful we had to photograph her from all angles. And she has a backstory!
"Teezles are small furry animals that live in woods and forest all over the world...
#MerryChristmas #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social

We wish everyone a #MerryChristmas and hope you all have a jolly good time. (Pictured, Rose and Crown, Welling, 1981). #ArchiveAdventCalendar

Photo of the Ancient House, Walthamstow in the snow, early 20th century. The central sign reads 'The Ancient House Bookshop'. Photo from VHM collection, available in our Searchroom.

Snow at the Ancient House, Walthamstow in early 20th cent. Then used partly as a bookshop, this is a former 15th cent hall house and the earliest surviving domestic building in Waltham Forest. Internal conversion now gives several dwellings #ArchiveAdventCalendar
#MerryChristmas @arascot.bsky.social

#MerryChristmas from Newcastle University Special Collections & Archives!

This #Christmas break, enjoy a festive blog on the public reading of A Christmas Carol and how Dickens’ classic has been celebrated over time
blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/202...

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A Victorian Christmas card showing a painting of four small dogs. The text says: "Blessed are the merciful. Bow! Wow! We have come to say. We wish you a merry Christmasday. S. Herbert".

To everyone who has visited, contacted us, followed, liked, and commented on our posts this year — Derbyshire Record Office wishes you a #MerryChristmas and a Happy New Year!

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🎅🎄✨From Santa’s knee to Santa herself! Shirley Temple is bringing the #MerryChristmas cheer this year for @arascot.bsky.social's #ArchiveAdventCalendar. From Film Star Scrapbooks 1930-1945. #filmarchives #filmhistory #scrapbooking @dmu.ac.uk
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Merry Christmas from the all of us at the Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum, and from these lovely chaps in the Falklands! (1982-83). #ArchiveAdventCalendar #MerryChristmas #royalhampshireregiment

#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 25 is #MerryChristmas. Merry Christmas to everyone, from Dunblane's historic Leighton Library. Thanks to everyone who has supported the Leighton Library in any way this past year

🚶 Leighton Library closed for winter, except by special arrangement

#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 25 is #MerryChristmas. A Merry Christmas to everyone, from Dunblane Museum. Many thanks to all who have supported Dunblane Museum in the last year.

Dunblane Museum is now closed until the spring, reopening on 1 April

Image of a Christmas show cast back in 1953, courtesy of Mrs Jean Williams

Page from an 1949 album, thanks to Angela for the donation

Close up of the Father Christmas in the 1st image but it hasn’t come out very well!!

Hope everyone is ready for #Santa
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A few vintage shots the first is from 1953, second is from 1949 and the last is a poor attempt at trying to crop the #Santa 🎅🏻 from the 1st image!!

Hope you are all ready for #Santa 🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻

Christmas tree decoration: Father Christmas on swing, wooden body and swing, woollen hat, fur for beard

Santa Claus is coming to town.... on a swing?!
This little chap comes from our Montse Stanley textile collection buff.ly/ykWoV51
#Santa #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social

Dear #Santa...

This touching 1917 letter to Father Christmas was written by 7-year-old Geoffrey Washington Trevelyan on #ChristmasEve at Rounton Grange. He asks Santa to decorate the tree & bring presents for the children blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/201...

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The Angus Xmas Number ; a Pageant of the Year's Events in Pictures & Story : Herald Press, Arbroath : 1947: The very festive cover to the Christmas 1947 edition of "The Angus", the publication of the Arbroath Herald and Angus County Advertiser and that gives a picture of the year past. It was a difficult year for many, post-war austerity gripped Britain and the winter weather was harsh. But they were the first years of peace and there seems to have been hope of better times ahead, even of rationing easing as many of the commercial adverts hold out the hope that desired products would be available or more plentiful going forward. Much of the coverage is for the Tayside city of Dundee. The cheery Santa Claus is by Colin Gibson (1907 - 1998) who was a noted local artist from Arbroath who won the Guthrie Award in 1943. He had started sketching and drawing cartoons for the publishers, the Arbroath Herald, whilst still at school. This is dominated by a very cheery Santa in a snowy woodland setting with the title above framed in green on white . The lower edge carries the words "A pageant of the year's events in pictures and story."

@arascot.bsky.social Something suitably #Santa & from #Scotland for you in today's #ArchiveAdventCalendar with the cover of the Christmas 1947 issue of the Angus magazine.

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"Then there was a children's party [in Malaya], [the] highlight of which was the arrival of Father Christmas by air. 'He' was 'dropped' by parachute from an Auster aircraft behind some buildings and finished the last stage by Jeep." (RHAMPS Regimental Journal 1956) 🎅
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #Santa

Cover of Ilford Limited’s ‘Between Ourselves’ staff magazine, Christmas 1960, featuring illustrations of Santa Claus playing various musical instruments

#Santa takes a break on Christmas Eve with a quick concert in this cover of photographic company Ilford Limited’s ‘Between Ourselves’ staff magazine for Christmas 1960 🎅

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Nurses holding gifts next to Santa

It is nice to see that #Santa found time in his busy schedule to visit the nurses at Newbury District Hospital in 1964! #ArchiveAdventCalendar

A Victorian Christmas card showing Santa Claus riding a penny-farthing through a snowy landscape. He is wearing a rucksack full of presents and is holding a branch of holly in his right hand. Several reindeer are running behind him, all with baskets full of presents strapped on their backs.

Watch out! #Santa's on his way, cycling through the snow on his penny-farthing. Luckily Rudolph and the other reindeer are behind him to make sure he gets round the world on time…
#ArchiveAdventCalendar

A decorative mural depicting a historical scene with intricate carvings, a red kite, and text mentioning Archbishop John Sentamu.

A man and a child walk along a decorative wall with four tall, arched sculptures. Text above reads: "having ORGAN lessons in the MINSTER".

A person on a bicycle and a dog pass by a textured wall featuring four theatrical masks and an arched building.

Mural depicting figures on scaffolding on a cathedral tower at York Minster against a textured background, with a bird on a wall and text fragments around the scene.

It is Christmas Eve!!🎅

Behind today’s door, as an early present, we have four blocks showcasing the most prominent fixture of the York landscape, the Minster.

Those with keen eyes may notice a few familiar faces from previous tiles in the minster decorations. 

#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasEve

🎅 #Santa plots his route the vintage way. Ready or not #Christmas is coming! #Christmascartd from @tonyhancockappreciationsociety c 1960 for @arascot.bsky.social's #ArchiveAdventCalendar. #filmarchives #TVarchives @dmu.ac.uk
@librarydmu.bsky.social #Christmas2025

One more sleep to go. Time to get ready for #Santa to visit. #ArchiveAdventCalendar

Its finally Christmas Eve and #Santa will soon be on his way. Here he is in City Square with with his horse drawn sleigh and some smiling local children. We don't have a year for this Santa appearance but its likely to be early 1990s.

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Photo of Father Christmas on a decorative float, en route to Bearmans Toy Fair in Leytonstone, c.late 1950s. Father Christmas waves as he sits at right end of the float, which is decorated to resemble a large sleigh. He is accompanied by people dressed as teddy bears in the middle and penguins on the left. Photo from VHM collection, available in our Searchroom.

Father Christmas with penguins, on his journey to Bearmans Toy Fair in Leytonstone, c.late 1950s. #ArchiveAdventCalendar #Santa @arascot.bsky.social

#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 24 is #Santa. Santa visits the annual Dunblane Christmas Extravaganza, held every year at the end of November

🚶Dunblane Museum is now closed until the spring, reopening on 1 April

#ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 24 is #Santa. Is this Santa, looking a lot like Robert Leighton from his portrait in Leighton Library? It was quite the gift to Dunblane which Robert Leighton left in his will - the creation of Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library - much more than a stocking filler!

Front entrance of Whitchurch Hospital back in 2010

Front entrance of Whitchurch Hospital back in 2010

The water tower of Whitchurch Hospital back in 2010

The Chapel at Whitchurch Hospital back in 2010

It’s down to the wire this evening!!

Today #ArchiveAdventCalendar is #WinterWonderland
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Here is a snowy scene at Hall Place Gardens, Bexley in 1964. #WinterWonderland #ArchiveAdventCalendar
Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre is now closed for Christmas. We will re-open at 9.30am on 5 January.

It doesn’t snow in London very often but the Museum looks glorious when it does! #archiveadventcalendar #WinterWonderland #britishmuseum #archives

A true #WinterWonderland

These 1925 photographs capture the Richmond and Trevelyan families enjoying ice skating in a frozen landscape. A beautiful glimpse of winter leisure and family life from a century ago collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...

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