BBC - Christmas - Christmas in Wales

Food

A selection of Christmas recipes by Mrs Beeton which were popular in Wales.

Read about Welsh Christmas customs and traditions.

How to have an ecologically-sound festive period.

We've got festive footage from Cardiff and Swansea from the 1970s to the present day.

The films include footage from the banqueting hall of Cardiff Castle, decorated as it would have looked in the Victorian era.

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Relive some great festive songs with a Welsh connection.

The affectionate, much-loved look back on Christmases past.

A Christmas gift for you: video clips from the BBC archive with a Welsh perspective.

Santa Run

Blue Peter's Gethin Jones took part in the Newtown race in 2005.
Bethlehem post office

In 1997 Stuart Miles visited Bethlehem, Carmarthenshire, where cards receive the village's famous postmark.
Christmas in the community

A look back to how Christmas brought 1960s rural Welsh communities together.
Harry Secombe

The former Goon spoke to Vincent Kane about his childhood memories of Christmas.
Swansea in the 1970s

BBC Wales Today archive footage featuring shots of Swansea at Christmas in the 1970s.
Bethlehem school

Stuart Miles spoke to all nine school children from Bethlehem and watched their nativity play rehearsals.
Plygain

In west Wales, Christmas day celebrations started before first light with a carol service.
Cardiff in 2003

Footage from the BBC Wales Today archive of Cardiff city centre and the Norwegian Church.