We have published a gallery of photographs taken at our 2009 switch on (see 2009 Gallery page). If you have any great photos which you’d be pround to share with all on our home page, please send them in to us. Email your photographs to design@josh.biz.
Submitted photographs will only be used for the purpose of promoting the Holt Christmas Lights event. They remain copyright to you in every other respect.
Click here to visit the 2009 Photo Gallery
Byfords for lights outside and seen on the ceiling of the dining area near Francois Bouttier.
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.
Has anyone seen the bay tree that was to be presented to Chris Coubrough as a thank you? The tree ‘walked’ from the stage some time between the switch on and 8pm. As a chef he had seen it and was looking forward to using it!
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!
The weather forecast for Holt from the BBC website today is looking promising. It looks as though there will be very little chance of rain. The wind speed (important for the fireworks to safely proceed) was predicted to be quite high but this has now dropped down from Strong Breeze to Moderate Breeze.
Fingers crossed!
Gary and all his team at Edgefield Nurseries – 01263 587457Once 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!
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!
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.
The Holt Christmas Light committee are delighted to announce that Total Butler are sponsoring this years fireworks at the switch on celebration.
Visit the Total Butler website for news and information on products and services.
You can also contact the local sales office at Total Butler, Wymondham on 08457 240 241.
A flyer has been created to outline the entertainment on the night, including where and when various entertainment takes place. Download and print your flyer for the evening so you know what’s on and where. Click the thumbnail below to download your flyer.
Flyers will also be printed and available with the forthcoming issues of The Holt Chronicle and The Holt Times.
To read pdf documents you must have the Adobe Reader software installed on your computer. Use the link below to acquire this for free (if not already installed).
The Holt churches will be open during the Christmas Lights Evening. Soup & hot drinks will be available at the Methodist church and mulled wine and minced pies in the Parish Church.
Once again, as the dark evenings invade, it is time to talk sparkly white lights!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.
The main stage running order is nearly set and what a fantastic fun fuelled show its going to be this year!
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
