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By: - 27th November 2016 at 15:47 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Carnaby/Regent Streets
A lot of recycling of Christmas decorations this year as Oxford Street are using their 'Snowballs' again and Bond Street have the same 'Peacock Feathers' theme from last year.
Carnaby Street, which is just off Regent Street, have a new Christmas theme based on an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum called ‘You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970’. Personally I think they have taken a cheap and easy option and phoned it in. Not impressed with Carnaby Street this year.
Crown Estates, who own Regent Street, have gone all nostalgic and the display for this year is based on the first Christmas lights, floating Angels, which went up along Regent Street in 1954.
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By: - 10th December 2016 at 18:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
St Katherine Docks/Seven Dials
St Katherine Dock's
Nothing spectacular but St Katherine Dock's claim to have the only floating Christmas tree in London with it floating on a pontoon in the western basin.
Seven Dials, Covent Garden.
Seven Dials is a small road junction in Covent Garden where seven streets converge. The column at the center of the convergence only has six sundials at the top of it as it was commissioned and built before they added a seventh street. Their Christmas theme this year is forest animals and apart from the obvious ones in the decorations across the various streets, there are also supposed outlines of forest animals in lights in the tree branches around the centre. I didn't make any out though.
Hyde Park Winter Wonderland I think next. http://hydeparkwinterwonderland.com/#lSt1zDMMX51CcBZI.97
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By: - 16th December 2016 at 10:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Hyde Park Winter Wonderland
Didn't spend as long at Hyde Park as I had intended as it started raining after about an hour and the rain app indicated that it was set for the evening. A larger attraction and a lot more there than I thought there would be. Free to get in but a bit of queuing due to bag searches. I'll be going back between Christmas and New Year with my wide, w i d e angle lens for a night shoot. In the order they were taken.
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By: - 16th December 2016 at 12:36 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Great pictures. Thanks for sharing
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By: Pen Pusher - 16th November 2016 at 13:44
May only be November but ‘Tis The Season for switching on Christmas lights and Covent Garden did it in style on Tuesday evening. As the crowds gathered in the piazza on the west side of the square, Covent Garden staff were wandering through them handing out mince pies, wine and red Reindeer antlers. The switch on was hosted by TV personality Kate Thornton who first introduced onto the stage the Royal Opera Chorus who sang excerpts from three operas and then yuletide carols. The stage was then cleared of microphones and thoroughly swept before members of the Royal Ballet performed excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker which concluded with the pas de deux by the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Prince and considering the limitations of the stage, they all did very well. The Sugar Plum Fairy then switched on the lights. Right on cue as Kate Thornton was leaving the stage and the crowd started to disperse, the heavens opened and the crowd dispersed into Covent Garden to get out the rain. It was a bit too tightly packed inside to get any decent photos so I’ll go back later when the Lego centerpiece turns up for display.
I’ll keep updating this thread as I visit other crimbo locations between now and the New Year..
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