Tuesday, December 18, 2018

A Festival of Trees

Recently, whilst on the travels I mentioned in my last post, we dropped into Bakewell in Derbyshire where there was a wonderful Christmas Tree Festival in All Saints church.

Luckily it was a bright and sunny morning as we walked up to the church. 

Inside it was warm and welcoming even the church cat was waiting at the door.  It was of course trying to get inside where there were lots of trees to climb.


My camera took lovely photos out in the open but some of my interior shots were dismal.  There were also lots of people inside but I manged to get a few photos and below are some of my favourites.

The tree above was by the bell ringers of All Saints commemorating all the bell ringers lost during the first world war.

 Decorated by Hassop Church Choir

 Christian Aid working to help restore dignity out of poverty.

 Bakewell Visitor Centre


 The Prayer Tree

 Above and below......

... by A J Welldressers


 Above and below Bakewell U3A Craft Group



 Bakewell Alms Houses and Bakewell Town Guild

 Methodist Junior School

 I loved this one, all the details with sugar mice, goose eggs and robins in watering cans by The Georgian Sweet Shop

 Above and below a selection of tree to be found in the sanctuary.

Tiroler Stuberl is an Austrian coffee shop in the town.

The Peak Advertiser and Wee Dram

 Bird Song
 Above the Family History Group, Brides of Bakewell and Bakewell in Bloom.

Just down the road from Bakewell is Haddon Hall where we spent a couple of hours  in the land of fairy tales.  

 I'll take you there in my next post.

17 comments:

  1. Some really nicely decorated trees there. These festivals have become more popular in the last ten years or so but nobody seems to know when the first one was held.

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    1. I've only noticed them in the last five years or so but they have probably been around a lot longer. They do seem very popular:)

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  2. These trees are quite beautiful. One of the hotels here does a mass Christmas tree event each year in its lobby areas.

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    1. They are lovely aren't they? Good for the church too with all the donations:)

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  3. What a wonderful idea. I have never been to a tree festival. So pretty. :)

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    1. They are very festive and a visit makes you feel a bit Christmasy:)

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  4. Aren't they pretty. My camera never captures the real effect of lights indoors and taking a video is even worse! 🎄🎄🎄

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    1. They were lovely. I did struggle with taking photos of some of them others seemed okay. Depaends I suppose on lighting both in the church and on the trees:)

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  5. What a wonderful selection of Christmas Trees at Bakewell Church. I too particularly like the Georgian Sweet shop one :) Both my cameras struggle with indoor photography though the Pansonic Lumix is much better than the Olympus. Even if you can use flash it often makes the photo look worse I find.

    Have been to the church once and found it so interesting. Love your photo of that lovely font :)

    Looking forward to your next post :)

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    1. I think I may startto look for another camera although the one I have takes fairly good photos at times. I don't know if I can justify having another one yet. It is a fascinating chuurch and seem to be open most of the time there is a refreshment area too on several days of the week:)

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  6. What a perfect place to visit at this time of year. We have something similar at one of our island churches. B x

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    1. It certainly made us feel more festive, there were quite a few trees, I think it was the biggest tree festival I've been to:)

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  7. So much twinkle! How lovely, it must have made you feel quite Christmassy. x

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    1. It did Mrs T, the church and the town all looked festive:)

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  9. A great variety of trees! We've been to Haddon Hall today :) I've wanted to go for months and I finally had a free day so made it on the last day to see their christmas decorations!

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    1. Thank you Louise, so glad you got to Haddon. It looks wonderful doesn't it?:)

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