With Christmas coming up, we asked you to share yur favourite festive memories from childhood.

Whether it was time with family members no longer with us, turkey dinners, or finding a tangerine in your stocking, Christmas is a time of treasured memories for most of us.

This is what readers said:

Carys Caisey: I'm in my 60's so we had very little for Christmas but my parents ensured we had a good main present. Loved the tiny artificial tree, the church service on Christmas Day followed by my mam's amazing dinner."

Alison Evans: "Showing each other the present that was on the end of the bed before waking mum and Dad up 

Bethan Evans replied: "Lying up across the bed and kicking dad out to get him up. Until that one Christmas morning when he rolled out naked!"

Sue Wright: "My mum and dad letting us get up to open presents no matter how early it was." 

Marika Williams replied: "Still do that with Lauren and Harrison."

Lyn Warrener: "We were always grateful and probably happier than most kids today."

Amanda Shaw: "My mum she always tryed really hard, too hard infact.  I wish so much to have just have 5 minutes with her to hug her and tell her I love her so much. It was the one day a year were she would stop and just spend time with us."

Karen Roberts: "Family and party games, homemade fudge and peppermints."

Samantha Owen replied: "I remember you making fudge. Dreamy!"

Rebecca Mcclelland: "The night before listening out for the bells….running down in the morning and my dad making crumpets and brews all round."

Pauline Henderson: "One main present and a stocking with a selection box, a tangerine, and a new sixpence."

Carys Caisey replied: "Yes..we had a tangerine to bulk up the stocking."

Ann Saunders: "Don't forget the iced mouse!"

Mandy Wright: "My mum, nan and grandad...wish I could go back and have more Christmases with them."

Vanessa Northam: "The sheer excitement of Christmas Eve and waking up in the middle of the night to see what presents Santa had left - magical!

Lyn Sargent: "The Christmases my dad was able to join us, perhaps three in the whole of my growing up years in the 50s & 60s. He was in the Merchant Navy and I often went two years without seeing him. He was usually somewhere across the world for Christmas." 

Andrea Heseldin: "Seeing Santa."

Carly Kearns: "Realising just how lucky we were, how my mum and dad worked so hard, all year round to give us the best Xmas' ever."

Richard Shearing: "Going around to see all friends and family with mum and dad, sadly lots are not here now."

Julie Ellis: "Waking up about 3am on Christmas morning to hear the rustling of wrapping paper and feel the presents at the end of my bed…in a pillow case, then eating a selection box and going back to sleep."

Beccy Galeandro: "Watching the road in the distance to try and spot our grandparents car as they came for Xmas dinner then playing twister and Pictionary with them."

Llywela Bynner Evans: "My mum and dad."

Anne Hart: "My mum."

Janet Edge: "A white sugar mouse and a tangerine in the bottom of my stocking."

Rebecca Leathley: "Wrapping paper that didn't tear lol."

Louise Johnson: "My dad."

Angela Metcalf: "Family."

Penny Brown: "The tangerine at the end of your pillow case."

Chris Jones: "Sitting in bed very early morning with my sister. Freezing cold (No central heating then) eating chocolate cigarettes and opening our presents. Happy days."

Jen Bilous:  "The crinkle sound of that net stocking at the end of my bed full of stuff…always a tangerine in the toe and a selection box poking out of the top!"

Michaela J Whiteside: "Family being together." 

Annette Foster: "My family, all amazing. Shame you don’t realise at the time."

Leonie Wainwright: "Having one day with my mum and dad, brother and sister in the hotel we grew up in. It was the only day it was just us as a family. No guests and nobody in the bar. Beautiful family time."

Julie Evans: "My Dad always used to go out for a beer with his mates and always brought my Mum back a Cherry B and mini Babycham bottle... she was teetotal mind."

Janet Lynn Williams: "Having lovely presents, then dinner, then all the family would come for Xmas tea."

Kymberley Bates: "Waking up in the night and if the stocking was on my bedroom door Santa had been, I was allowed to open the bits inside that then my mum and dad would hear I was up it would be all systems go."

V Edwards Coal Merchant: "Selection box."

Hayley Louise Owen: "My dad's Christmas Dinner and having all the family round."

Narelle Picchianti: "The fun, the surprises and happy times with family and friends." 

Jenny Jepson: "Our silver Xmas tree, I would be mesmerised by it."

Rosalie Anne Wainwright: "I remember those Christmasses well."

John Jeffreys: "Family games at night."

Marie Vancorler: "No bills."

Carla Heath: "Family members that are not here."