We've pulled together some of our favourite Christmas photos from across Wakefield in the late 1990s and early 2000s to help with the festive feeling this December.
Can you spot any familiar faces in the gallery below?
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Christmas decorations adorned every surface of the centre.
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It was costumes on all fronts at the Christmas lights switch-on at the Ridings in 2004.
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Santa and his fellow presenters put on a show ahead of the big event.
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Villagers singing carols at the Kirkhamgate Christmas tree in the centre of the village