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'O Come, O Come… but where has Christmas gone?' - Your Letters and Wolverhampton Churches march together in a 1979 picture from the archive

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By Tania Taylor
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PICTURE FROM THE PAST: Members of four Wolverhampton churches took to the streets in their first joint procession to celebrate Whit Sunday in June 1979. The congregations of Penn United Reformed Church, St Bartholomew's, Penn, St Michael's, Coalway Road, and Springdale Methodist Church all took part.

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Looking in vain for Christmas

How soulless and sad it has all become;

Just an advertising industry extravaganza

And an an excuse for the retailers

To put together more and more bizarre combinations of food

The sight of which has already destroyed my appetite in November!

As I wander with little wonder around the stores

Yes ‘stores’, there aren’t shops anymore!

I search in vain for just one sighting of an angel, 

A crib, a baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph - a shepherd?

And as for wise men!

Nowhere to be seen

‘Cancelled’ perhaps? 

I haven’t seen anything on the news.

Advent calendars. Surely there;

Advent is after all a Christian celebration. 

I recall an advent calendar we had when I was a child.

Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem;

The finding of the stable

The arrival of the Magi

The angels and the shepherds

And finally Baby Jesus in the manger!