James Cooper

basically, and to drum up support and interest in the plays. And they would carry around branches of apple trees or just dead, you know, not the fir trees as we think of them today, but branches of trees or frames of trees. And they were decorated with apples traditionally because they represented the Garden of Eden. And so the earliest trees had red apples put on them.

And then when trees became popular as an indoor custom, firstly in northern Germany, and people started decorating fir trees, they still traditionally put things like apples on them. And we have red round baubles today because when glassblowers first made decorations, they made them to look like apples because that's what people were used to putting on their trees.

And then when trees became popular as an indoor custom, firstly in northern Germany, and people started decorating fir trees, they still traditionally put things like apples on them. And we have red round baubles today because when glassblowers first made decorations, they made them to look like apples because that's what people were used to putting on their trees.

And then when trees became popular as an indoor custom, firstly in northern Germany, and people started decorating fir trees, they still traditionally put things like apples on them. And we have red round baubles today because when glassblowers first made decorations, they made them to look like apples because that's what people were used to putting on their trees.

Yeah, they were the ones that sort of did the first big introduction, certainly into the States. They came over from Germany, from Bavarian glassblowers. And you also had things like gingerbread that were put on trees, shapes cut out of bits of paper, stars and angels and things like that. But yeah, the first commercial ornaments came in the way of glass blown ornaments.

Yeah, they were the ones that sort of did the first big introduction, certainly into the States. They came over from Germany, from Bavarian glassblowers. And you also had things like gingerbread that were put on trees, shapes cut out of bits of paper, stars and angels and things like that. But yeah, the first commercial ornaments came in the way of glass blown ornaments.

Yeah, they were the ones that sort of did the first big introduction, certainly into the States. They came over from Germany, from Bavarian glassblowers. And you also had things like gingerbread that were put on trees, shapes cut out of bits of paper, stars and angels and things like that. But yeah, the first commercial ornaments came in the way of glass blown ornaments.

And the big ones were from the Walrus.

And the big ones were from the Walrus.

And the big ones were from the Walrus.

Yeah, indeed. But Christmas trees didn't really become a thing in the US until the 1850s onwards. Before that, you would have some of the German and Dutch immigrants that would have had trees, but they were looked on as a very unusual custom. They only came into the UK then. predominantly in the 1840s.

Yeah, indeed. But Christmas trees didn't really become a thing in the US until the 1850s onwards. Before that, you would have some of the German and Dutch immigrants that would have had trees, but they were looked on as a very unusual custom. They only came into the UK then. predominantly in the 1840s.

Yeah, indeed. But Christmas trees didn't really become a thing in the US until the 1850s onwards. Before that, you would have some of the German and Dutch immigrants that would have had trees, but they were looked on as a very unusual custom. They only came into the UK then. predominantly in the 1840s.

The earliest tree in the UK was from one of the royal family, Queen Charlotte, who was the German wife of King George III. She put up a yew tree in one of the lodges at Windsor Castle in 1800. It's a children's party. But Queen Victoria and her German husband, Prince Albert, really popularised the Christmas tree in the UK. And in 1848,

The earliest tree in the UK was from one of the royal family, Queen Charlotte, who was the German wife of King George III. She put up a yew tree in one of the lodges at Windsor Castle in 1800. It's a children's party. But Queen Victoria and her German husband, Prince Albert, really popularised the Christmas tree in the UK. And in 1848,

The earliest tree in the UK was from one of the royal family, Queen Charlotte, who was the German wife of King George III. She put up a yew tree in one of the lodges at Windsor Castle in 1800. It's a children's party. But Queen Victoria and her German husband, Prince Albert, really popularised the Christmas tree in the UK. And in 1848,

there was a drawing published of the royal tree at Windsor in one of the big London newspapers and that sort of became the ignition of the popularity of trees in the UK and then in December 1850 that same drawing but with some early Photoshop going on because they took out Prince Albert's moustache and swapped the, took off Queen Victoria's tiara to make it look more homely and American

there was a drawing published of the royal tree at Windsor in one of the big London newspapers and that sort of became the ignition of the popularity of trees in the UK and then in December 1850 that same drawing but with some early Photoshop going on because they took out Prince Albert's moustache and swapped the, took off Queen Victoria's tiara to make it look more homely and American

there was a drawing published of the royal tree at Windsor in one of the big London newspapers and that sort of became the ignition of the popularity of trees in the UK and then in December 1850 that same drawing but with some early Photoshop going on because they took out Prince Albert's moustache and swapped the, took off Queen Victoria's tiara to make it look more homely and American

And that was published in 1850 in Philadelphia. And that's when Christmas trees started to become popular in America because they were seen as sort of the fashionable British thing to do.