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Friday 1 December 2017

Ancestors' Advent Calendar: Dec 1st: Decorate Your Christmas Staircase With Evergreens!



' Hall and staircase decoration, rather than crowding evergreens into reception rooms, is a modern fashion. There is an air of welcome to a Christmas guest when he steps into a hall and mounts a staircase greeted by graceful festoons reaching from one corner of a cornice to another, ' Supplement to the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent, Saturday December 24th, 1881. 

 How do you decorate your staircase for Christmas? Use the comments box.

Tomorrow's Ancestors' Advent Idea

For a full article on how your ancestors decorated for Christmas click here



Girls' Own Paper December 20th 1884




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