Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree Light Switch On
Every year Trafalgar Square sprouts a wonderfully large Christmas Tree (Did you know? - The tree is a gift each year from the people of Norway as a thank you for support and friendship during World War Two)This is a focus of the Christmas season in central London. Always a superb, giant pine tree, the Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square sports a really wonderful Christmas light display.
The lights on the Christmas Tree will be turned on Thursday 6th December at 6.30pm (I'm gutted to be missing it this year, due to 'We Feast' - my last blog post) The lights remain on from midday until midnight every day throughout the Christmas season, so I will be making my way down to see it one evening in the coming weeks.
The ceremony of turning on the lights is preceded by a carol service at St Martin-in-the-Fields. The tree itself remains there, of course, until Twelfth Night - 6th January 2013.
The enormous tree is a popular seasonal tourist attraction, particularly in the fortnight leading up to Christmas, when each evening from Tuesday 11 December to Sunday 23 December 2012, between 5pm and 9pm, a different choir gathers there to sing carols and raise money for a range of voluntary or charitable organisations.
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