Christmas Music Makers
| For a few weeks before Christmas the streets of 19th century London began to assume a new aspect. It became a musical city, with many groups of music makers playing on the busy streets. |
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Not all carol-singers were welcome!! It was the Victorians who collected, composed and published old and new carols. On the first night of the Christmas holidays, the voices of carol singers floated in on the night air, and if they were lucky, welcomed indoors for a glass of punch and mince pie.
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| Carol singers were often portrayed struggling through the snow of the countryside with only the light of their lanterns to guide them. |
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