{"id":56950,"date":"2021-12-20T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=56950"},"modified":"2021-12-20T22:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T22:00:21","slug":"christmas-in-cardiff-celebrating-through-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2021\/12\/20\/christmas-in-cardiff-celebrating-through-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Cardiff: Celebrating through the years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Tales from the city\u2019s past, present and Christmas yet to come<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I GET called a Scrooge at this time of year. It\u2019s not because I\u2019m frugal with money \u2013 my bank balance will vouch for this \u2013 but it\u2019s because I can be a bit cynical about Christmas, a bit &#8220;bah humbug&#8221; about it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, 2021 will be my first Christmas in Cardiff and, if ever there\u2019s a time to change, then perhaps it will be alongside a change of scenery \u2013 and some ghosts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Charles Dickens\u2019 <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>, Ebenezer Scrooge (AKA the original Grinch) is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come who help to change his miserable ways. So, in the spirit of Christmas spent in a new city, let\u2019s welcome our first ghost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cardiff of Christmas Past<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Grandpa kept chickens and so on Christmas morning we were each allowed an egg \u2013 which was a real treat!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/maryst-1024x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/maryst-1024x800.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/maryst-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/maryst-770x601.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/maryst-1536x1200.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/maryst-293x229.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/maryst-1400x1093.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/maryst.jpg 1539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/maryst-1024x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/maryst-1024x800.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/maryst-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/maryst-770x601.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/maryst-1536x1200.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/maryst-293x229.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/maryst-1400x1093.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/maryst.jpg 1539w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption><strong>Christmas lights at the end of St Mary Street in 1964.<\/strong> Photo: WalesOnline.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChristmas,\u201d says Yvonne Bennett and then pauses, looking down at her dog, Skeeter, who is sitting on her lap looking back up at her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t like it is now, you didn\u2019t have dozens of toys and there were lots of handmade things. You couldn\u2019t get toys in the war years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs Bennett was born in 1937 and grew up in Grangetown during the Second World War. We\u2019re sitting in her Caerphilly home on a rainy Saturday afternoon eating lemon drizzle cake while she recollects her childhood Christmases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had a doll which was taken off me a couple of days before Christmas and she was washed and made to look nice. Dad would repaint the lips and then my mum would make this lovely dress for her,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery year, the same doll would come back, but it was dressed in a different outfit \u2013 and I was thrilled to bits! I didn\u2019t feel hard done by, because that was all I knew.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children would also get a stocking filled with an orange, an apple, nuts and maybe some pencils, Mrs Bennett tells me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her family would go to chapel on Christmas Day and later they would come back home to play games and eat a dinner of seasonal vegetables and maybe a small bit of chicken or pork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGrandpa kept chickens and so on Christmas morning we were each allowed an egg \u2013 which was a real treat,\u201d says Mrs Bennett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven though the war was going on, I honestly don\u2019t remember Christmas being a miserable time. I think the grown-ups made a real effort to make it a happy time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/YvonneBennett-1024x1006.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56972\" width=\"490\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/YvonneBennett-1024x1006.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/YvonneBennett-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/YvonneBennett-770x756.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/YvonneBennett-1536x1509.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/YvonneBennett-2048x2012.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/YvonneBennett-293x288.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/YvonneBennett-1400x1375.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/YvonneBennett-1024x1006.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56972\" width=\"490\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/YvonneBennett-1024x1006.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/YvonneBennett-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/YvonneBennett-770x756.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/YvonneBennett-1536x1509.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/YvonneBennett-2048x2012.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/YvonneBennett-293x288.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/YvonneBennett-1400x1375.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption><strong>Yvonne Bennett with her dog, Skeeter, in their Caerphilly home.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" title=\"Family games at Christmas during WW2 by The Cardiffian\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1176632545&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=1200\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"Family games at Christmas during WW2 by The Cardiffian\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1176632545&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=1200\"><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div><figcaption><strong>Mrs Bennett describes the games her family would play on Christmas Day. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Crocker was born in 1952 in the city\u2019s lost district of Newtown \u2013 known then as Little Ireland \u2013 and tells me that although money was tight for his family, Christmas was full of fond memories for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn those days, working class kids didn&#8217;t expect a present but you usually had a little something,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe best present you could get was a bike, but few kids had a new one. I had a bike one year, a second-hand one that my old man put a new bell on and painted over at the <a href=\"https:\/\/museum.wales\/collections\/online\/object\/4d1c448a-0beb-3be5-ab40-4d81ab5398eb\/Bute-Dry-Dock-Cardiff-photograph\/\">Dry Dock<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/CoopSociety1951-1-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56976\" width=\"622\" height=\"605\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/CoopSociety1951-1-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56976\" width=\"622\" height=\"605\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>The toy department of the Cardiff Co-operative Society on St Mary Street in 1951. Photo: WalesOnline.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn Christmas morning, all the kids went out to see what other kids had. If someone had a bike or a dolly pram everyone would be trying to get a hand on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLittle kids would play with their new marbles in the gutters and other kids would play with their cap guns and play swords.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tina Jones, born in Grangetown in 1967, remembers the importance of Cardiff\u2019s markets in her family traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy sister and I would run up to Cardiff market with our Dad every Christmas Eve for an early present. We would be given an amount we could spend and then have to run around and pick something before the market closed,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThen it was a quick march to Mill Lane market to get my mum the biggest bunch of flowers we could afford \u2013 we usually bagged a bargain as it was so close to closing time on Christmas Eve!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cardiff of Christmas Present<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It would difficult to talk about present day Christmas in Cardiff without mentioning a third C-word, wouldn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covid is still the dreaded guest at everyone\u2019s alleged Christmas parties, and yet walking through Cardiff city centre \u2013 lined with market stalls, carol singers and last-minute shoppers \u2013 you\u2019d be hard-pressed to know it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/cumarket-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/cumarket-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/cumarket-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/cumarket-770x511.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/cumarket-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/cumarket-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/cumarket-370x247.jpg 370w, 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https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/cumarket-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/cumarket-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/cumarket-293x195.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/cumarket-1400x930.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>C<strong>ardiff Christmas Market, Working Street, which closed early in December 2020 due to coronavirus restrictions.<\/strong> Photo: Daisy Graham-Brown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Away from the hubbub, though, many are feeling the same anxiety about Christmas as they felt last year, especially in light of the new variant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve just cancelled a trip I was supposed to be making to London because I just don\u2019t feel like it\u2019s safe,\u201d says Pentywn councillor Emma Sandrey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt this point in time I don\u2019t have many plans for Christmas other than having dinner with my parents on Christmas Day, but even that really depends on how the current situation develops and what guidelines are announced,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/Morganarcade-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/Morganarcade-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, 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This is the first year Ben Busche&#8217;s installation has come to Wales.<\/strong> Photo: Daisy Graham-Brown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Allison Vale, 54, who lives in Roath, has similar concerns:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis Christmas we\u2019re so determined to be able to have family come stay that we\u2019re actually isolating now in the 10 days leading up to Christmas as much as we feasibly can,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve cancelled getting together with friends this side of Christmas just in case, especially since we haven\u2019t all been able to get boosters yet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2021\/12\/14\/walk-in-lanes-for-boosters-announced-for-wales\/\">Access to vaccines<\/a>, new regulations and everyone\u2019s individual sense of safety will determine what kind of Christmas we have this year but, as councillor Sandrey says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve just got to try to do the right thing now which will mean we\u2019ll hopefully have more Christmases together in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cardiff of Christmas Yet to Come<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cCreating a people-centred, sustainable city demands a radical change of heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardiff\u2019s favourite time traveller was unfortunately not available to whisk me away into the future for this part. 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Photo: Daisy Graham-Brown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Something that Cardiff Civic Society has written in its recently published document, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CardiffCivicSoc\/status\/1467922223767994369\">Our Vision for Cardiff<\/a>, stood out to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It says: \u201cA truly modern city, one that is fit for future challenges, must put the needs of its citizens and the planet first, embodying values such as social justice, equality, placing communities at the heart of decision making, as well as addressing climate change and biodiversity loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCreating a people-centred, sustainable city demands a radical change of heart. 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