MEMORY LANE: We didn't have winter snow, traditional carollers or heavy midday dinners with plum pudding. But in Christmases past, we did have Santa's Cave, swimming at Horseshoe Bend, strawberries and icecream, and Salvation Army musicians playing carols in the sunshine. On Christmas Eves in the 1950s, sweet carol singing echoed through the corridors of the Palmerston North public hospital, as nurses with lights and songsheets shared the music of the season. PALMERSTON NORTH CITY LIBRARY Nurses sing carols at Palmerston North Hospital, Christmas Eve, 1958. In 1970 Palmerston North turned 100 and the city council bought a set of Christmas lights from England, part of a previous display used on London's Regent St.

Source: Stuff December 20, 2019 21:56 UTC