Bloxwich Christmas tree and lights, Promenade Gardens, with reflections
Bloxwich, Business, Christmas

Sparkling spectacle is icing on Bloxwich’s Christmas cake

Bloxwich Christmas tree and lights, Promenade Gardens, reflecting in the historic 'National' school windows
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 Street
The new lights begin in trees opposite the former Grosvenor Cinema on High Street
They continue outside St Peter's Roman Catholic Church
They continue outside St Peter’s Roman Catholic Church
Bloxwich Market Place boasts its own modest but attractive lights
Bloxwich Market Place boasts its own modest but attractive lights
A further eye-popping avenue of light begins outside the dear old 'National' school
A further eye-popping avenue of light begins outside the dear old ‘National’ school
The view back along High Street from the Bloxwich Christmas tree in Promenade Gardens is spectacular
The view back along High Street from the Bloxwich Christmas tree in Promenade Gardens is spectacular
The display of ethereal luminescence continues past Bloxwich Park
The display of ethereal luminescence continues past Bloxwich Park
The gem-like spiderwebs of icy light offer a dazzling gauntlet for night-riders
The gem-like spiderwebs of icy light offer a dazzling gauntlet for night-riders
Chlidhood recollections of trips to the 'Blocko Lights' on a trolleybus spring to mind as a double-decker speeds northwards
Chlidhood recollections of trips to the ‘Blocko Lights’ on a trolleybus spring to mind as a double-decker speeds northwards
The display concludes just before the Bell Inn
The display concludes just before the Bell Inn
And Pat Collins' Memorial Clock in the northern Promenade Gardens marks time as it views the spectacle
And Pat Collins’ Memorial Clock in the northern Promenade Gardens marks time as it views the spectacle

For more pictures at higher resolution, see our Flickr album via this link.