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Christmas Past and Present

'On that day when I re-evaluated everything we did at Christmas'

Ruth Fox
Dec 16, 2025
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If I go back to my childhood, I have a handful of Christmas memories.

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I grew up in Bolton, Lancashire, in a family of six. Mum, dad and four of us kids.

I remember going down to Bolton Market on probably the day before Christmas Eve to …

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