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.

 

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1. Tyler Lowe, seven months old, at Tyrers

 

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2. Archie and Evie Goulbourn, aged four and two, at St George's Hall in Liverpool

 

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3. James Tigwell aged four at Frozen Santa Trail at Blundells Hill Golf Club

 

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4. Amelia and Lily Rylance aged seven and three at Santa's Secret Workshop in the Trafford centre

 

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5. Darcy Brown, 14 months old, taken at Tyrers

 

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6. Amina Ahmed, three years old, at Tyrers

 

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7. Oliver Darbyshire, nine months at Trebaron Garden Centre (tried pulling Santa's beard off)

 

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8. Henri Coady, four months with Santa in Tyrers 

 

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9. Zac Ingham, age seven, taken at Gulliver's World

 

And here's a more nostalgic picture from the 1960s...

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10. Pauline Gibson says this is her mum with Father Christmas (her dad) in Oxley's grotto, in the early sixties