ST HELENS parents have been visiting a host of grottos around town and further afield this year, to see Father Christmas with their little ones. Thanks to Star readers for sharing these via Facebook and email.
1. Tyler Lowe, seven months old, at Tyrers
2. Archie and Evie Goulbourn, aged four and two, at St George's Hall in Liverpool
3. James Tigwell aged four at Frozen Santa Trail at Blundells Hill Golf Club
4. Amelia and Lily Rylance aged seven and three at Santa's Secret Workshop in the Trafford centre
5. Darcy Brown, 14 months old, taken at Tyrers
6. Amina Ahmed, three years old, at Tyrers
7. Oliver Darbyshire, nine months at Trebaron Garden Centre (tried pulling Santa's beard off)
8. Henri Coady, four months with Santa in Tyrers
9. Zac Ingham, age seven, taken at Gulliver's World
And here's a more nostalgic picture from the 1960s...
10. Pauline Gibson says this is her mum with Father Christmas (her dad) in Oxley's grotto, in the early sixties
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