By Jonathan White
The festive season began in Crewe with the town’s Lumen Christmas Lights switch-on and a winter fairy story projected onto Municipal Building.
The event featured a lantern parade led by Spark! – a street show with drumming and dancing to a kaleidoscopic lighting design – from Lyceum Square to Memorial Square.
It’s that time of year again when homes across Crewe and Nantwich light up the night sky with their amazing Christmas decorations.
And photographer Jonathan White has been out and about to capture the most eye-catching light displays.
Nantwich and Crewe residents certainly entered into the ‘spirit’ of Halloween as hundreds of homes were decorated in ghoulish gear.
Thousands of youngsters and their parents took to the streets for the now traditional ‘trick or treat’ fest.
By Jonathan White
South Cheshire families are being entertained at the “The Lost Carnival” in Crewe’s Queens Park this Bank Holiday weekend.
The event is described by the organisers as an ‘outdoor theatrical circus adventure’.
The Mayor of Nantwich has called for a Christmas Lights “clear the air” summit with her Crewe Town Council counterpart.
Cllr Christine Farrall’s request to meet with Crewe Mayor Cllr Pam Minshull is the latest twist in the “fairylightsgate” controversy.
Crewe councillors are threatening legal action and other measures if Christmas lights given to Nantwich are not handed back.
They have even suggested bringing in contractors to rip the lights down if used in a Nantwich Christmas display later this year.
Crewe Town councillors have hit back in a row with their Nantwich rivals over a set of Christmas lights. They have called for them to be returned so they can be used in Crewe town centre, despite Cheshire East Council donating them to Nantwich.
Councillors in Nantwich and Crewe are locked in a mid-summer wrangle – over a set of Christmas Lights! Nantwich Town Council says it now owns the lights, which were apparently offered as a gift by Cheshire East Council.
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