Sunday 3 Dec 2006

Annual Charity and Voluntary Organisations Christmas Market and Christmas Tree Lighting

 A Town Council Event

A soggy start to to the day but it turned out bright, clear, crisp and on the edge of bloody cold for the Christmas Markets ... so definitely a hat day ... and Matt Bayfields's girlies made a cracking job of turning the lights on.

2-5pm Sunday 5th December 2005 on the Market Hill

Annual Charity and Voluntary Organisations Christmas Market

(still trips off the tongue doesn't it?)

A Town Council Event

No rain, lots of stalls with the RNLI in lifejackets, a queue for Gosia's coffees, the Ipswich Hospital Band made jolly tootle, darkness started to fall and five year old George Smith made a perfect job of turning on the lights.

Carols were sung and the Guides distributed their carrot and coriander soup and the councillors distributed the mince pies they'd brought and then ...

... everyone went home.

2-4pm Sunday 28th November  2004

A little girl was amazed and intrigued by Felix, the volunteer firemen looked ill at ease being photographed, Chairperson Steph managed to ignite the Christmas Tree lights by pressing two buttons at once whilst not thinking of the word "rhinoceros" ... allegedly, the The Ipswich Hospital Band played, a large crowd sang carols, and free soup was distributed ... and what's more the soup was carrot and coriander not tomato!