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Phillip Makepeace Lights Santa Horses

1987 , Peterborough (Cambridgeshire)

Cat no. 23127

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Christmas lights switch-on and entertainments to promote Peterborough shopping.

In Peterborough city centre after dark, a children’s roundabout, brightly-lit sweet stall and Santa’s grotto are among the attractions at the start of a winter festival. Anglia TV reporter Greg Barnes stresses the competition between the region’s shopping centres to lure the Christmas shoppers, and the commercial aim to promote the Queensgate centre at Peterborough. The local council has spent £8,000 on horsedrawn carriages, jazz bands, jugglers, fire eaters, clowns and a tight wire act. Phillip Makepeace of Peterborough City Council says this is an important investment to support local businesses which draw shoppers from a 50-mile radius. The entertainments are on the streets outside the Queensgate Centre and will continue for four weeks up to Christmas. Santa Claus arrives on a Norwich Union stagecoach drawn by four white horses. He switches on the Christmas lights, and Greg Barnes is won over by the festive cheer which banishes the shadows of commercialism. Scenes of stilt-walkers, the jazz band, a clown leading a donkey cart ride for children with revolving Christmas tree, the fire eater performing and children riding the horses on the roundabout. This video was made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

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Christmas; Shopping; Entertainments; Winter festivals; Santa Claus; Father Christmas; Illuminations; Jazz bands

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Phillip Makepeace Lights Santa Horses

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