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Showing posts with label Christmas 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas 2011. Show all posts
Friday, 23 December 2011
Friday, 16 December 2011
Whiteleys Santa's Grotto
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Santa's Grotto at Whiteleys
Santa Claus is coming to Whiteleys with a sack crammed full of books to support the National Literacy Trust’s Young Readers Programme this Christmas.
The grotto will be launched Thursday 17th November at 7.00pm as part of the Christmas tree lights switch-on evening and will remain open until 8.00pm.
Whiteleys Grotto will be open between 12.00pm – 2.30pm and 3.00pm – 6.30pm
1st – 24th December
The Christmas Tree and Grotto are located on the ground floor in the Central Atrium."
Santa's Grotto at Whiteleys
Santa Claus is coming to Whiteleys with a sack crammed full of books to support the National Literacy Trust’s Young Readers Programme this Christmas.
The grotto will be launched Thursday 17th November at 7.00pm as part of the Christmas tree lights switch-on evening and will remain open until 8.00pm.
Whiteleys Grotto will be open between 12.00pm – 2.30pm and 3.00pm – 6.30pm
1st – 24th December
The Christmas Tree and Grotto are located on the ground floor in the Central Atrium."
Friday, 2 December 2011
Queen Victoria’s Christmas returns to Windsor Castle
A Christmas tree is suspended from the ceiling at Windsor Castle in a recreation of one of Queen Victoria’s festive traditions. Visitors will see how the Queen and Prince Albert celebrated Christmas with their young family as the State Dining Room and Octagon Dining Room are transformed with the tree, a display of Victorian festive dining – and a reconstruction of the couple’s Christmas gift tables.
The Christmas tree was popularised in Britain by Prince Albert, although he displayed some of them rather differently from how we do today. Those traditions have inspired this year’s display of an artificial tree with swags, ribbons, replica candles and imitation snow, suspended from the Octagon Dining Room ceiling, where the chandelier usually hangs.
In the German tradition, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert exchanged gifts on Christmas Eve and presents were laid out on tables, each of which had a Christmas tree at its centre. Two gift tables will be recreated with presents exchanged by Victoria and Albert. Among the highlights is a painting by Sir Charles Eastlake commissioned by Victoria in 1844 as a gift for Albert, and a sculpture of Princess Beatrice as a baby lying in a shell, given to the Queen by Prince Albert for Christmas 1858.
In the Castle’s State Dining Room, the table will be laid for a Victorian Christmas feast with a magnificent porcelain dessert service by Minton of Staffordshire. Known as the Victoria Service, the set was purchased by the Queen at the Great Exhibition in 1851 and includes four porcelain figures of the four seasons, ice pails, cream and bon-bon dishes, and a pair of silver-gilt sauceboats shaped like sleighs.
Christmas trees from the Windsor Great Park will also be on display in St George’s Hall and the Crimson Drawing Room from 5 December. They will be decorated with crown-shaped baubles produced exclusively for the Royal Collection and available to purchase from www.royalcollection.org.uk/shop.
The 31st Great Christmas Pudding Race will take place on 3rd December 2011
The event is organised by CRAC on behalf of Cancer Research UK and supported by Matthew Walker and Covent Garden Market. More Information
The event is organised by CRAC on behalf of Cancer Research UK and supported by Matthew Walker and Covent Garden Market. More Information
Monday, 28 November 2011
The Journey of the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree 2011
At 11:10 am on Friday 18 November, one of the most famous trees in the world began its journey to London.
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Video of Last Years Tree Cutting Ceremony
At 11:10 am on Friday 18 November, one of the most famous trees in the world began its journey to London.
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| This Years Tree! |
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| The Ostmarka Forest in Norway Where the Tree Comes From |
In the forest of Østmarka just outside of Oslo, a 46 year Norwegian Spruce tree was carefully selected as the 2011 Christmas tree to London.
The Mayor of Oslo - Fabian Stang, and the Lord Mayor of Westminster – CouncillorSusie Burbridge, made the initial ceremonial cut before forestry workers completed the felling of the tree.
In the spirit of Christmas, children from the local Lutvann Primary school, the Oslo International school and St Mary’s Primary school from London, sang Christmas carols before and after the tree-cutting ceremony. The annual gift from the city of Oslo is a token of gratitude for the assistance given to Norway from 1940 to 1945. When it reaches Trafalgar Square, the tree is carefully erected and decorated with ornaments and strings of lights (energy efficient light bulbs). A plaque at the foot of the tree reads:
‘This tree is given by the city of Oslo
as a token of Norwegian gratitude to
the people of London for their
assistance during the years 1940-1945.
A tree has been given annually since 1947’
as a token of Norwegian gratitude to
the people of London for their
assistance during the years 1940-1945.
A tree has been given annually since 1947’
The Trafalgar Square Christmas tree forms the focal point for the traditional singing of Christmas carols in the Square. The tree will leave Norway for the UK on Monday 21 November.
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Video of Last Years Tree Cutting Ceremony
Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree Ceremony Thursday 1 December 2011
This tree is given by the city of Oslo as a token of Norwegian gratitude to the people of London for their assistance during the years 1940-1945. A tree has been given annually since 1947’
The Trafalgar Square Christmas tree forms the focal point for the traditional singing of Christmas carols in the Square.
Friday, 18 November 2011
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