Read more: A hard Christmas it was in London in the 1960s Saving for Christmas began in September. We all had our red tin money boxes, which got heavier and heavier as December approached.

London has technically had six white Christmases since 1960: 1964, 1968, 1970, 1976, 1996 and 1999. However, white Christmases in London have not always been so rare.

While the 1960s was perhaps the greatest decade for rock music, the era was also fabulous for Christmas songs. In part because the two crossed over in major ways, with big-name rock groups writing ...

In the early 1960s, Goodyear and Firestone sold Christmas records in the hopes of bumping tire sales before the holidays. And it worked.