Miki’s photographs and article on the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square appear today in the Japanese webzine AirBePal.
Took my mother Bel Macdonald a year ago today to join a small crowd around the carol singers under the tree, much as shown in Miki’s pictures.
I have a vivid memory from my childhood. My father loved spectacles and to see them would drive our family on what in the 1950s were fairly long journeys. I remember standing in Trafalgar Square on the edge of a large crowd listening to the carollers. The crowd filled most of the Square, and we stood near the traffic coming out of Whitehall, where we had bought bags of hot chestnuts, one of which was warming my hand through a woollen glove.
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