Naive nativity

I am not convinced that this shop in Blythe Bridge has actually seized the essence of the Nativity with its shop-window display. 
An over-sized doll in a cardboard carton, with no parents nearby, and soft-toy animals standing in for The Shepherds (at least, I suppose that's why they are trying to represent) doesn't appear to me to really sum up the message.

And yet, there is something charming in its naivety, which makes it much more interesting than hundred 'accurate' Nativity scenes.

Imprisoned nativity

This nativity scene seems oddly poignant, placed as it is, behind a plastic screen and some bars. I guess the screen protects it from vandals; it’s placed right in middle of the town centre at Cheadle.

The ‘bars’ are the railings that ring the small garden space here, but they seem to make their own, rather affecting, political comment.