Welcome again to our new Time-trip column where each week we publish a set of pictures which appeared in the paper in the 2000s.

The pictures appear on our website and are then reprinted in the paper.

This week features Accrington Town Hall Conservative Christmas Fair, where Samuel Waddington, six, and Siobhan Maher, 10, are trying on some Christmas decorations, and a hen party departing from Accrington Train Station.

You can also see Accrington Town Hall’s Christmas lights switch on, with three Santas joining in the fun, and a picture from Andy’s Florists, Dutton Street.

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