Christmas
Every year the lights are switched on in the Thoroughfare and then people gather near St Mary's to see the Christmas tree being lit up. There are stalls in the Thoroughfare and people dancing with a special visit from Father Christmas who gives the children presents. A Christingle Service is held in St Mary's Church at 4.00pm every Christmas Eve with a Midnight Mass at 11.30pm.
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Famous quotes containing the word christmas:
“The eleventh day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Eleven ladies dancing,”
—Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 76–78)
“He asked if I would sell my Christmas trees;
My woods the young fir balsams like a place
Where houses all are churches and have spires.
I hadn’t thought of them as Christmas trees.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)