Sparkle in the Park 2024

Well, the annual Greenwich event of Sparkle in the Park has come and gone.  Starting on Friday 29th November and ending on Sunday 1st December 2024.
It is an annual free public light show that used to take place in Maryon Park, but the venue was moved this year to CharltonHousee.
The show is sponsored by the Greenwich Heritage  Foundation and the Greenwich  Council.
Surrealism was the theme of the day, so there were works of art with charity themes, giant semi-transparent balls that changed colour that you could walk through, a giant synchronised light show on the grass, and various decorative light statues of animals all around the place.
There was a tea room and a pop-up Tavern for the adults, as well as other bars and food stalls and art and craft stalls encircling a field at the end of the path of the light show.
Even brighter and flashier than the light show was the fun fair next to the light show,  which I can safely say was what most of the kids wanted to head towards.
Here is a short film I took while visiting Sparkle in the Park 2024 at Charlton House.
Another light show that I drove through but did not even realise it was in Eltham.
I wondered why there was such a large crowd standing outside the Long Pond pub on Westmount Road in Eltham on the evening of Thursday 28th November.
I later found out from another Eltham-based blogger that it was a turning-on ceremony of the Christmas lights along Westmount Road, turned on by the Comedienne,  writer and actress Helen Lederer.
I think I can safely say that the Regent Street or Oxford  Street Christmas lights have nothing to worry about in regards to being outshone by the Westmount Street lights, but it does brighten up the road at night.