On this Day 1974: Christmas Carols

OTD, December 24th, 1974…

ATV Today on Christmas Eve fifty years ago ended the programme with a festive number.

In the days when regional ITV news carried on as normal on the eve of December 25th the news show featured children from Nelson Street Primary School in Birmingham who sung ‘Away in a Manger’.

The carol was written in around 1882 and has become an annual classic in the UK.