direct to your inboxAll the way back on New Year's Eve 1923, the BBC began a much-loved festive tradition when it broadcast the sound of Big Ben striking midnight to the nation for the very first time.
That same month May and Frank Wilkinson started what would become their own long-running festive tradition when they brought home a beautiful Christmas tree made of goose feather for their eldest child, Frank Jnr.Almost a century later their daughter, Kathy Firth, 83, still has the tree, which has been brought out and decorated by her family without fail every Christmas since the 1920s.The tree was first enjoyed by her eldest siblings Frank and Delpha when they were children and later by Kathy and her other brother Ralph when they arrived.
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