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Winner

Byfords for lights outside and seen on the ceiling of the dining area near Francois Bouttier.

Runners up

• People Tree for ivy garlands and general display
• The Kings Head

Best Window

Winner

• Mrs Jones

Runners up

• The House and Garden shop

Special mention for innovation

The Photographers Gallery for mounting a street display of outstanding wildlife pictures set to music,  plus tables and chairs for people to sit and watch.

If anyone has the tree or knows of it’s location, can they contact us or take it directly to the King’s Head at Letheringsett please!

Fingers crossed!

Once again, Edgefield have come up trumps sourcing all our Christmas trees both tall for the communal town spaces and short for those retailers with holders attached to their premises. Despite us putting in our order for the big 25 footers in February, sadly this doesn’t mean that they will grow tall enough come November! However, Edgefield have scoured the East of England and found the best!

F W Woodrowe and Sons – 01263 713183

As in previous years, the second wave of the tree operation sees F W Woodrowe and Sons, our local ‘builders come professional tree positioners’, then advance into the town and safely erect all those large trees, this year, under gale conditions!

C & O Electrical Contractors Limited – 01263 860140

Lastly, the third piece of the jigsaw is completed by our lighting contractors for 2009, C & O Electrical Contractors Limited, as they light the main large trees in the town. A mixture of red bulbs are inter dispersed with the usual LED white lights on the tree down at the War Memorial, each bulb commemorating a name inscribed.

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You can also contact the local sales office at Total Butler, Wymondham on 08457 240 241.

Flyers will also be printed and available with the forthcoming issues of The Holt Chronicle and The Holt Times.

Holt Christmas Lights 2009 Flyer (pdf  – 630kb)

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We politely request WHITE LIGHTS (LED) only please. On masse, the visual impact is stunning.  Coloured lights can all too easily become the spectacle. Use white lights to pick out the features of your property, make your business and its contents the visual feature of your display.

Try the website lights4fun.co.uk for purchasing lights.  Get in early, demand will outstrip supply! Call C&O Electrical for a quote to install or look up a local electrician in the yellow pages, Holt has many!

Use a time-clock so that no retailer’s lights are still blazing at breakfast time each morning, everyone will know who you are!!! Switch-on is at 6.30pm, not as soon as it gets dark! A year of hard work by your committee, the evening’s event schedule and all of Holt’s thousands of extra visitors are geared up for total darkness turning into festive light at this time.

Edgefield Nursery will deliver FREE 5ft trees for those with holders attached to their premises who have donated or we can arrange for £7.50 each.  Please let me know your requirements. It would make quite a dramatic impact if all 35 holders throughout the town were full!

Although I now work at Country and Eastern, The Old Skating Rink, Norwich, I am available to field any queries by telephone in normal working hours on 01603 663890 or by emailing sales@countryandeastern.co.uk. I still reside on Holt high street and can meet any retailer 6pm onwards on working nights.

I will be attending the next Holt Chamber of Trade meeting on 4th November, am available on the 13th or 21st November and will be in Holt for the full day of the lights itself.

Give just a little time, thought and investment to the 25th and make sure, individually, you are ready for all those extra visitors that this special evening and the weeks over the festive season, generates.

You can’t buy this sort of publicity for your business. Make the most of it!

Sarah Tribe,
Representative on the Lights Committee for LIGHTS and TREES.

At 6.00pm the show will open up with Norfolk Norfolk Radio broadcasting live on air

6.10pm sees The Church and Gresham’s Senior School Choir back to their familiar slot to bring us up to the BIG SWITCH ON at 6.30pm.

NNR will count down live on air as Chris Coubrough flicks the switch and brings this years lights on.  Up go the fireworks in time to music before we let the cast of the Cromer Pier Team entertain us with excerpts from their forthcoming show.

The evening will draw to a close with music from local band Third Base from 7.00pm