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Permanent ‘winter lights’ spiked for ‘festive’ variety
THEY were Christmas lights with a difference: Spiky black balls designed by art students and left up all year rather than just the festive season.
In fact, they weren’t even Christmas lights. Traders in Kentish Town were instead asked to use the term ‘Winter Lights’ when referring to the £70,000 glistening fibre optic lamps.
Twelve months, and a postbag full of grumbles, later, the Town Hall has revealed that officials finally plan to axe the spikes in favour of more traditional decorations.
For starters, the new coloured lamps will be ‘Festive Lights and residents are more likely to see illuminated holly, snowmen and candy canes – rather than the row of spikes they are now familiar with.
A council spokesman said on Tuesday: “The old lights will be replaced by traditional festive lights this year. They will be going up either at the end of November or beginning of December and will come down at the start of January.”
The spikes proved a damp squib among residents and businesses last year and there are no plans to bring them back after Christmas. Nick Mavrides, from Ace Sports and chairman of the Kentish Town Business Association, gave a response typical among traders during a New Journal survey of the street.
He said: “When I first saw them I thought they were sputniks or World War II sea-mines, I had half a mind to call in the bomb squad.”
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