This week, we are taking a very festive flashback to the best photos from across South Ayrshire in December 2003.
Who can you spot in these Christmas shots from 20 years ago?
Youngsters from Heathfield Primary in Ayr held their 2003 nursery concert. The little stars took to the stage to perform in front of a packed audience of teachers, parents and grandparents with the leading roles played by four year olds Daniel Frew (Joseph) and Brooke Finlay, (Mary).
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Doonfoot Primary’s nursery class held their nativity concert in December 2003. Performing a “Christmas Story” the 43 youngsters sang and entertained older pupils and also parent and grandparents.
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Staff at Culzean Castle took a step back in time to celebrate a Victorian Christmas in 2003. Along with amateur actors and volunteers plus pupils from Kyle Academy and Maidens Primary, the workers dressed in period costumes to re-enact how a traditional Victorian family would celebrate the festive period.
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More than 500 Christmas parcels were winging their way to frontline troops in Iraq in December 2003, thanks to the good folk of South Ayrshire. Five-year-old twins Laura and Ross Dewar from Ayr presented parcels from the campaign to Private Dane Johnstone, Lance Corporal Derek MacGregor and Private Jacob Rakuita from the Scots Guards
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St John’s Primary in Ayr staged their Christmas play, The Little Baby Fir Tree – with P3 pupils Christopher Freeman, Melissa Jamieson and Emmy McPhail in the leading roles.
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Pupils at Wellington School Nursery and Infant departments staged their nativity play for family and friends in 2003.
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