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Alton was throbbing with activity this weekend as people from far and wide flocked in for the town’s annual Yuletide Festival. Alton was alive with the Christmas spirit on 4th December as traders from across the south gathered early on Sunday morning and began setting up for the town’s biggest event of the year. It...
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A calendar with a difference has again been launched to help fund Alton’s Christmas Lights. Alton Past & Present 2012 shows scenes from Alton of yesteryear (by kind permission of Hampshire County Council’s Museum Service), alongside an image taken from the same spot today and has been put together by Alton photographer and designer...
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Thousands of light bulbs are being offered for sale by Alton Town Council, in an effort to raise funds for the town’s Christmas Lights Display. Each year the council replaces all the 1,000+ bulbs that decorate the town centre each December, to ensure a higher quality of display. However this means that the...
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This year’s Alton Yuletide Festival on the 4 December is set to be busier than ever, thanks to the biggest publicity campaign in the event’s five year history. A regional radio campaign and over 20,000 flyers delivered to every home in Farnham and Petersfield should attract visitors from far and wide, event planners...
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Christmas in Alton officially gets underway on Friday 25th November when the town’s glittering display of Christmas Lights will be switched-on at a ceremony starting just before 6pm in the Market Square. The event will include all the traditional elements such as carols, music, seasonal messages and panto characters, and will again take place...
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