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Here we see Santa arriving in the town, not on a sleigh but on a vintage vehicle. Former Andover photographers Edith Howard of 74 High Street took this shot from what appears to be a first-floor window of Plummers, now The Redbridge. The car is a 1905 Vauxhall 3-cylinder Phoeton that belonged to Anna Valley Motors who had premises in Bridge Street opposite the Broadway from 1925 until 1962. The area is now the site of Clarence Court flats. The car was bought as a wreck in 1935 to restore, and was subsequently used for advertising and as an exhibit in carnival processions, both in Andover and Salisbury.