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Season's Greetings! Sending Scran love to one & all 🐾

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2021-12-25

There are so many cards with that we had to share a few more. The party invitation is signed Gropp, the animals in line is by .

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2021-12-25

It's day 24 and the theme is

Here's an illustration of Santa arriving at the door of a happy family in the 25th December 1880 edition of Punch magazine.

See more pages from the festive issue: ➡️https://t.co/FkeS0LouDp

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2021-12-24

is the theme of day 20, so we're sharing this 1865 plan of most famous chimney (and one of the city's most iconic landmarks), the amazing Cox's Stack.

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2021-12-20

This youngster surely knows that if anyone deserves for all of their hard work, it's This is another wonderful card designed by .

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2021-12-19

For today's the theme is Christmas was a time for families to be reunited and to enjoy themselves to the full, besides the yule log’s Christmas glow. A beautiful example of colour printing by chromolithography.

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2021-12-15

- hoping we'll make an impression with this statement cape as advertised in 'The Gentlewoman' magazine 1895. It can be obtained from Messrs. Perry & Co.

thanks to our personal stylists https://t.co/p6gHVtcfiZ

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2021-12-13

For today's the theme is Uninvited guests arrive for Christmas? These little mice have found their winter quarters, who knew they were attracted to candles?

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2021-12-11

For Day 11 an image from the G L Wilson Grotto of 1953 featuring Wee Willie Winkie with a lamp. Who remembers the fantastic grottos in department stores?

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2021-12-11

Wonderful image from "A Winter in Lapland and Sweden, with various observations relating to Finmark and its inhabitants", by Arthur de Capell Brooke (1827).

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2021-12-09

Time to start the Christmas From the collection here is an image of some shop assistants waiting for the arrival of customers at the opening of the NAAFI Toy Fair at the Moascar military camp near Ismailia, Egypt

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2021-12-06

Today's theme is Reindeer antlers were found in a peat bog in Rousay in the 1930s. They were a size larger than any previously recorded from Scotland. So reindeer were in Orkney in prehistoric times. Ref: PSAS 1935-6 Vol20

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2020-12-19

No sign of in our collections but we've got prancing deer instead. This chromolithograph by Maurice Pillard Verneuil comes from L'animal dans la decoration (The animal in decoration), 1897 https://t.co/7ujWpODiL7

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2020-12-19

In 1917 Vesta Tilley (Worcester born Music Hall star) gave a Grafonola (record player) and records of her singing, as a Christmas present to a Military Hospital. They sent this letter of thanks to her, which we kept in her scrapbook

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2020-12-17

Victorian botanist Margaret Rebecca Dickinson's watercolour of a Holly branch. Gorgeous! Archive

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2020-12-17