New Christmas lights, two trees, a lantern parade, fair rides, Santa’s Grotto and guaranteed ‘snow’ attracted crowds of people to Ringwood for the new style Christmas switch on event.
Held on Small Business Saturday, (6 December)
the event started at 9.30am and the party was still swinging at 7pm.
The town council’s new style celebration had been backed by the National Lottery which awarded a grant of £9,988 towards the switch on and other events in the town throughout the year.