How they put up lights last year in Hatch End - man on l i f t i n g device

I just had to insert spaces in the word l i f t i n g because auto correct turned it into living!

I was trying to remember how they put up the lights on the Christmas tree in Hatch End last year (2014). You do not need a stunt man or woman doing a Batman impression, leaping up a lamp-post with the agility of performers at Cirque du Soleil. You need one man on a platform and another raising the platform.

Here's the whole contraption. I don't see a name on the van so I have no way of knowing whether they are employed by the Harrow Council or by another organisation.

Photographs by Angela Lansbury 2014, copyright Angela Lansbury.

Angela Lansbury travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.