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Melksham Christmas Lights

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2009-12-05 21:38:14 - Graham Ellis

It's December ... and the Christmas lights are coming out. A tree appears here, a string of lights there, and the odd magic wand to say "this is a special time of the year". (It was special in previous years too - {link})


But this is Melksham, and Christmas lights here are special - the construction crew has been hard at work for weeks, both in the town and at Longford Road, adding lights to the Town Hall, to businesses and to certain homes.

 


Yes, that's the famous "Cherry Picker" that our mayor keeps being referred to. I really must ask him to tell me the story some time.

How do the lights look?

Yes - they're very much worth seeing. Last year, this one house raised over £3000.00 for Dorothy House Hospice Care and I'm sure that's a record they're hoping to beat this year in spite of the recession and the awful weather in the last week or two which delayed the great switch on.


The official web site is here, but let's see some more of my pictures: