What do you miss from Christmas's gone by?

[dougdeep]

1) Annuals.

 

[Bigtomfu]

Snow.

 

[dougdeep]

Beating Palace.

 

[Starry]

Annuals are still around. My son got 2006 Beano in his stocking.

I miss snow as well. I swear when I was little we always had the white stuff at Christmas time.

 

[m20gull]

Pressies in a pillow case, with satsumas and walnuts

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Watching original television, rather than compilations of "great Christmas TV of the past".

 

[dougdeep]

Morecambe and Wise.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

believing in father christmas

 

[Brighton Breezy]

My Grandad.

 

[clippedgull]

Huge crowds on Boxing Day at The Goldstone (RIP).

 

[dougdeep]

Christmas pudding with silver sixpences.

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

my mum

 

[Wilka]

Being excited about it all

 

[B.M.F]

Christmas pudding with silver sixpences.

I knew there was something I had not eaten yet. I love crimbo pud with brandy butter

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Having the day off.

Star Wars.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

My idea of Christmas seems permanently fixed in the early70s,

Some of the tacky 70s Christmas adverts
- Cointreau
- Denim after shave; 'Santa's coming with Denim!'

Buying a pre-ordered turkey from Coe's in George Street on Christmas Eve

January sales starting in January

A ghost story on Christmas eve on BBC2

A packed Goldstone on Boxing Day

Being allowed 1 glass of Sanatogen 'tonic' wine on Christmas Eve

 

[1066gull]

Being excited about it.

 

[pasty]

Watching original television, rather than compilations of "great Christmas TV of the past".

Amen to that. What a pile of shite there has been on so far.

 

[Hiney]

Huge crowds on Boxing Day at The Golstone (RIP).

The last Boxing Day crowd was 4,830

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Huge crowds on Boxing Day at The Golstone (RIP).

My first Goldstone Boxing Day was against Bournemouth in 1971.
Average crowd so far that season had been, 15,000 but over 30,000 paid at the turnstiles for the Boxing Day game. It was the day that I became irretrievably hooked.