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  Our Visit to the Christmas Tree Festival 2017 It's here! All Saints Church, Preston With the decorations put away, Christmas now is all but forgotten, but I would like to go back a few weeks in time to the 21st December, 2017. View of the Pulpit and Altar One of the coldest days of the year, a dozen of us hardy souls gathered to see the trees in the exhibition, which is now in it's 15th year.   The Pulpit with some of the wooden pews The trees, which are decorated by or for different people and organisations in the local area, including the local walking group and the primary school. The Nativity in the South Transept Also on display is the half to life size nativity scene in the church, which  proves popular with visitors every year. Detail of a tree decorated by the local hairdressers- Note the curlers and bottles of lotion! The exhibition runs the three weekends up to Christmas, 1pm until 4 pm ...

While Waiting At a Bus Stop... Picture Source: HU12 Online I have mentioned many times on the twitter feed that history can turn up in the most unexpected way, and the last time it happened was while waiting for a bus just in between Christmas and New Year. A Hoodie similar to this that inspired this post! Picture Source: hullkr.co.uk The conversation started with an older man commenting on a (Hull Kingston) Rovers top the other man at the bus stop was wearing, saying that he remembers watching the rugby league team for the first time in 1938! That year, Rovers played two games in the Yorkshire Cup, winning to Castleford at home, 12-0; the second game in the cup was against Hunslet, losing 23-7 away. They also played the Challenge Cup in February of that year, losing to Keithley at home, 0-2. I do believe that the possibility of our mystery Rovers fan attended the home matches is very good, which took place at the old Craven Park, where Morrisons supermarke...