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Christmas Party at a pensioners lunch club in Tower Hamlets, 1975. Photo © David Hoffman.

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A boy in his new Cowboy outfit, Wales, 1962.
Photo Dennis Stock/Magnum

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Christmas lights on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow 1962.
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West Berlin, 1960.
Photo Rene Burri

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A wee lassie doing a wee mannie, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, January 1940.
Photo by George W. Hales

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Kids in Manchester rolling a huge snowball, 1968.
Photo Shirley Baker

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Santa takes time out from his busy schedule for a cigarette break on the roof of a building in London's West End, 23rd December 1970. Photo Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix

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Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 1970.
Image: Mirrorpix

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Xmas Tree in a Levittown Living Room, 1963.
Photo Diane Arbus

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A small child making her way home after school in Watersheddings, near Oldham, 1982.
Photo Don McPhee

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2 girls stand by their 17ft snowman in Aberdeen, Scotland 1962.
Photo: Popperfoto

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Santas between shifts at Selfridges, London, 1988.
Photo @JohnSturrock1

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Dagenham, 1970s.
Photo Tony Bock

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Two ladies climbing the Garnet Street hill in Glasgow, 1952.
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Residents of South Luton Place in Cardiff's Adamsdown with their 14ft snowman, 1982.
Image: Media Wales

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Two brothers meet for Christmas after having been separated by the Berlin Wall. 1963.
Photos Ian Berry

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Kids having a snowball fight outside The Royal Scottish Academy on Princes Street, Edinburgh, 28th December, 1962.
Photo TSPL

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Wallsend, North Tyneside, 1970s.
Photo Chris Killip