Christmas Lights in Stanmore and Santa's Pants in Tiverton, Devon

This year, 2015, Stanmore's winter decorations include white lights on the standard lamps and Christmas tree with blue lights.

The lamp posts by the traffic lights near Stanmore station have the best lights, a curve rising to two five point stars. Towards the next intersection near Sainsbury's the white lights are vertical. As you are driving into Stanmore from the station, the Christmas Tree is on the right by the parking area by the next set of traffic lights, lit in blue, by some real, permanent trees, on the right of the picture below.

Photos by Angela Lansbury.
These pictures were taken from a moving car.
Scroll down the list of my posts on the right to find better photos by Angela Lansbury of the lights in Watford and photos of the lights in central London taken by Trevor Sharot in a previous post.

The lights in Stanmore are in the immortal words of Ben Jonson, worth seeing  but not worth going to see. Very pleasant if you live in or shop in Stanmore. If you are in the area, better lights to see are in Watford's Intu shopping mall. For tourists the main attractions are the lights in central London.

Biggest success / failure story of lights this season is the lights in Tiverton, Devon, simi circular arches which are said to look like Sant's Pants.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p039491h?intc_type=fourcardmix&intc_location=avs&intc_campaign=fourcardmix&intc_linkname=signup_xmaslights_contentcard28

For Christmas lights in the USA, Far East and worldwide see Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_lights


Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.