London is the Christmas capital for me, Where ever I am I love to fly to London for Christmas and New Years, It is just brilliant so much diversity and so much holiday cheers. Now Getty photographer Peter Macdiarmid has trawled the archives to find iconic pictures of the city at Christmas, and digitally merged them together to show how much the place has or hasn’t changed as each new year rolls around.
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In this image a Santa Claus from 1926 greets children at Clapham Junction, depicted alongside the area as it looks in 2014.
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A bright Selfridges in 1935 amid the modern double decker buses of 2014.