Bloxwich Christmas tree and lights, Promenade Gardens, reflecting in the historic ‘National’ school windows
In our final festive posting before Christmas, The Bloxwich Telegraph would like to wish all its readers both Festive Felicitations and Season’s Greetings, wherever they are.
And it is a particular pleasure to conclude our 6th year first as The Bloxidge Tallygraph and now The Bloxwich Telegraph by presenting a photo-spectacular of the village’s wonderful new Christmas Lights – truly taking us all back to the days of our youth when bright bulbs hanging in trees along the High Street always used to complement the Bloxwich Christmas tree in Promenade Gardens, come rain, snow or hail!
For this sparkling return of our much-missed lights, now in powerful LED form, we have to thank the Bloxwich Business Partnership CIC and donors, raising a total of £15,000 pounds to pay for the lights and their hanging by cherry picker; massive support was given by Walsall Housing Group in particular.
We especially need to thank Bloxwich’s energetic organiser Nikki Rolls of the Partnership/Walsall Council, for doing so much to bring back the Spirit of Bloxwich Christmas Past.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, ONE AND ALL – AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The new lights begin in trees opposite the former Grosvenor Cinema on High StreetThey continue outside St Peter’s Roman Catholic ChurchBloxwich Market Place boasts its own modest but attractive lightsA further eye-popping avenue of light begins outside the dear old ‘National’ schoolThe view back along High Street from the Bloxwich Christmas tree in Promenade Gardens is spectacularThe display of ethereal luminescence continues past Bloxwich ParkThe gem-like spiderwebs of icy light offer a dazzling gauntlet for night-ridersChlidhood recollections of trips to the ‘Blocko Lights’ on a trolleybus spring to mind as a double-decker speeds northwardsThe display concludes just before the Bell InnAnd Pat Collins’ Memorial Clock in the northern Promenade Gardens marks time as it views the spectacle
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