Red Squirrel

By JJRW

Boxing Day: Attleborough Lights

Attleborough is just a small town, about 10 miles from me (the shops are mainly located in a rectangle on the one-way system which runs around the church). But for the last 12 years or so their Christmas lights display has put much larger towns to shame. Because the town council go to such lengths to put on a good display many of the businesses and residents in the one way system join in and add to the colour. Even in side roads many houses also contribute. For about 3 years I used to work for 1/2 a day a week at the Junior school there and also had to travel through the town a couple of times a week on my way home from other schools I then visited regularly - I used to drive around the one-way system 2 or 3 times just to take in the lights! One year I even wrote to the town council to compliment them on the display.
Every year for the last 8 years or so my late husband and I used to make a point of driving there one evening over Christmas to see the lights, and though I haven't been the last couple of Chistmases since he passed away I wanted to go this year. So I took a run out there earlier this evening. This blip is of Queen's Square in Church Street, the small grass square on which is located the town sign (and of course where their Christmas tree is placed, central with white lights in the picture) and which is the focal point of the town.
Opposite and further down Church Street even the church is illuminated with coloured lights. Here's the end view of the Church from Surrogate Street.
And here's Connaught Road which runs parallel to Church Street.
It's a lovely little town which I know well and have a real soft spot for - especially at Christmas!

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