IN PICTURES: A look back at Christmas celebrations in Mansfield and Ashfield in the noughties

By Shelley Marriott

Published 13th Dec 2023, 11:14 BST

Updated 13th Dec 2023, 11:14 BST

As Christmas fast approaches we are heading back to the mid-noughties to Christmas festivities including light switch-ons, school performances and charity events.

Are you one of the children in the school pictures?

Did you sing carols at a light switch-on?

Take a trip down memory lane and see who you can spot in our retro gallery.

Tony Delahunty and Bill Taylor pictured during a 2006 Christmas Lights Auction at Mansfield 103.2 Photo: Roger Grayson

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