M@The Ghost Of London's Christmas Past: Remember These Decorations From Previous Years?
This is Londonist's 22nd Christmas. Feeling nostalgic, we had a look back through our photographs of Christmas past and picked out some of the quirkier and more memorable moments. How many of these do you remember?
Starting in 2024 and working backwards....
2024: In Leicester Square Mr Bean gets festive. Image: Matt Brown2024: A skit by Wallace and Gromit is projected onto Battersea Power Station. Image: Matt Brown2023: The British Library has a better class of bauble for sale. Quoth the Raven: "How much?!?" Image: Matt Brown2023: The Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square is always good for a laugh, here with a Home Alone quote. Image: Matt Brown2023: Seasonal post box toppers can be found around the capital, but this one near Great Ormond Street Hospital is always among the best. Image: Matt Brown2022: One of London's loftiest trees, glowing on the upper part of Tower 42. Image: Matt Brown2021: Coal Drops Yard in King's Cross presents its treeless Christmas tree. Image: Mat Brown2020: A Lego Santa in Covent Garden. Image: Matt Brown2020: Nothing says 'Christmas' like a mortally wounded deer. Decorations in Seven Dials. Image: Matt Brown2019: By tradition, Londonist would always put the reigning Mayor of London on top of its Christmas tree. Image: Matt Brown2019: Anne Hardy's "post-apocalyptic' Christmas lights at Tate Britain were not everyone's idea of art. Little did we know that the following Christmas would bring us close to an actual apocalypse. Image: Matt Brown2019: Disturbing scenes inside Winter Wonderland, where the Ghost of Christmas Present appears to be pleasuring himself. Image: Matt Brown2018: Santa gets an upgrade on the streets of Soho. Image: Matt Brown2018: Soho wins the prize for cleverest Christmas lights this year. Image: Matt Brown2017: A street art Santa at Village Underground in Shoreditch. Image: Matt Brown2017: West Hampstead Tube staff fess up. Image: Matt Brown2017: The closest postbox to the Charles Dickens Museum is painted bronze-green and daubed with quotes from A Christmas Carol. Image: Matt Brown2016: A festive trash wagon in Shoreditch. Image: Matt Brown2015: The St Pancras Christmas tree is always a memorable affair. This year's conical collection of Disney soft toys more than most. Image: Matt Brown2014: We got a sneak peek inside the MailRail ahead of its conversion to a visitor attraction. Down here, beneath Clerkenwell, there was a room where it was forever Christmas. Image: Matt Brown2011: Piccadilly Circus as it's rarely seen... without any people in it. Views like this are only possible in the early hours of Christmas morning, when most people have better things to do, like sleeping. Image: Matt Brown2008: Camera phones were in their infancy in 2008, but ours captured the Carnaby snowmen in almost acceptable quality. Image: Matt Brown2007: Hodge the cat, erstwhile pet of Dr Johnson, gets a festive makeover a couple of days before Christmas.
