"A luminous room" - inside the grotto
Inside the grotto Inside the Grotto You might be surprised to learn that the tradition of visiting Santa in his ‘grotto’ at Christmas originated in Liverpool. The world’s first Santa’s grotto is thought to have been at Lewis’s Department Store on Lime Street, in Liverpool city centre. It opened in 1879 as a "Christmas Fairyland”, and the idea took hold in the rest of the UK, US and Australia around the start of the 20 th century. Lime Street, Liverpool, ph...
Source: architecture.com