DOUBLE GLOUCESTER

So after the main courses, what better way to end a Cotswolds festive feast than to indulge in a big helping of Double Gloucester!
This image may end up representing how some people will actually see Gloucester during Christmas if they have too may liqueurs of course, but in reality the picture was made using 2 separate photos.
One is an outdoor shot of Gloucester shops taken at Christmas time in the late 90's, and the other is an indoor shot of Christmas decorations in a Gloucester mall in the early 2000's.
And with this trippy looking spectacle, I'm going to depart for a festive break myself, so won't be doing any more posts now for a couple of weeks.
I will be back around mid January though, with another bundle of snaps to put on display.

TABLE BIRDS

On this years Christmas menu there is a choice between chicken, turkey and duck!
Joking aside, I doubt very much these particular birds in shot ended up on the table as a meal. The picture is a bit deceptive really because you automatically assume this was taken away out in the countryside at a farm somewhere, but the fact is, I took the photo in the late 90's at a city farm in the middle Gloucester and so it was a place that the public could visit, rather than a place for a farmer to do his slaughtering!

GARLANDS GALORE

No shortage of festive garlands on these shots anyway!
Two different towns involved and two different dates.
The first three were in Cheltenham shopping malls and were taken around the 2002/03 period.
The fourth picture was taken in a Gloucester shopping centre in the late 90's, and if you ignore all the Christmas related fun, you'll see C&A in the background!

CHRISTMAS CHARACTERS

These Christmas characters were out on display around the early 2000's in two different shopping malls.
The top one featuring a troupe in old fashioned costumes was in Cheltenham's Regent Arcade and the picture of Santa's little helpers was in Gloucester's Eastgate Shopping Centre.

THE EXOTIC GROTTO

Talk about climate change - Santa's Grotto seems to have been given a Bahamas setting this particular Christmas!
The real location wasn't some exotic island though, but was in fact a shopping mall in Cheltenham in the early 2000's.

BEARS AND PENGUINS

 

These creatures were out and about in two different shopping malls in Cheltenham at Christmas time back in the early 2000's.
The big teddy bears were on parade in the main aisle of one mall, whilst the penguins were floating about on chunks of ice on the stream that runs through the centre of the other mall.

TOYS AND THINGS

These two shots were both taken in Cheltenham in the early 2000's, but in two different shopping malls.
The top one was outside a shop I'm guessing was called Little Things, which judging by the photo sold small toys, novelties and cards.
The picture below it was part of the Christmas decor outside TK Maxx, and featured toy boxes that were loaded to the max!