{"id":201,"date":"2014-11-11T16:06:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T16:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2018-07-25T12:32:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T11:32:07","slug":"christmas-connections-historical-christmas-card-archives-featured-leyland-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/christmas-connections-historical-christmas-card-archives-featured-leyland-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Connections Featured in the Leyland Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Christmas Connections Featured in the Leyland Guardian<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Readers of the Leyland Guardian may have spotted the Christmas Connections team in the newspaper on Tuesday last week. If you missed it, or don\u2019t live in the local area, here\u2019s an overview of the story!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/CCA_Leyland_Guardian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/CCA_Leyland_Guardian-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Connections were featured in the Leyland Guardian\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/CCA_Leyland_Guardian-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/CCA_Leyland_Guardian-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/CCA_Leyland_Guardian.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At Christmas Connections, we\u2019ve been making Christmas cards for over 100 years and over the years, our most popular designs have been preserved in a series of catalogues and albums.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This year, we wanted to celebrate the rich heritage of our company and have decided to share our collection of cards for all to see online!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The first album of photos is online now and you can view them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ccaoccasions\/sets\/72157646350209022\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Michael Scowcroft, Ecommerce Manager at Christmas Connections says of the old card designs <em>\u201cIt\u2019s nice to see how things have changed. There are some during the war with images of the front line, and some show people wearing top hats.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cIt\u2019s also interesting to see how prices and timescales have changed. One advert we have says to give 6-8 weeks once you\u2019ve placed an order, and now we can turn things around in 48 hours\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Christmas1911.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Christmas1911.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Cards from 1911\" width=\"885\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Christmas1911.jpg 885w, https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Christmas1911-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christmas-connections.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Christmas1911-82x60.jpg 82w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Connections Featured in the Leyland Guardian Readers of the Leyland Guardian may have spotted the Christmas Connections team in the newspaper on Tuesday last week. 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At Christmas Connections, we\u2019ve been making Christmas cards for over 100 years &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[33,71,90],"class_list":{"0":"post-201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-christmas-connections-news","8":"tag-christmas","9":"tag-christmas-connections","10":"tag-historical","11":"anons"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christmas Connections featured in the Leyland Guardian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Readers of the Leyland Guardian may have spotted the Christmas Connections team in the newspaper on Tuesday last week. 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