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Ashlee Family Films: Christine Opening Christmas Presents, Bexley (1958)

Dolls, trains, a tricycle and new toothbrush are among the booty opened by one London toddler on Christmas Day in 1950s.

Amateur film 1958 5 mins Silent

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Overview

Taken from the Ashlee Family Films collection at Bexley, this short black-and-white home movie features toddler Christine on Christmas Day working her way through a stack of presents, including a doll, model train and first toothbrush. Later she goes for a ride on her new tricycle, which still has the label attached.

Bexley Local Studies and Archives