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09
Dec 2024
GALLERY: Great Knaresborough Christmas Tree Festival begins
Over 80 decorated Christmas trees have gone on display at St John's Church for the 10th Great Knaresborough Christmas Tree Festival.
The festival sees community groups, school and businesses decorate trees on whatever theme they choose.
Opened by the Bishop of Ripon at a preview night on Friday (December 6), the event runs until December 22.
Visitors are welcome from 10am to 5pm on Saturdays; 12 noon to 4pm on Sundays; and noon to 5pm on weekdays. Refreshments and mulled wine will be available at the weekends.
Admission is free, but there will be programmes and raffle tickets on sale.
Local choirs and music groups will perform live music on the two remaining Saturdays of the festival.
This year's centrepiece display is based on the theme of Good King Wenceslas.
All images by Gerard Binks.
Margaret Sikes admires one of the trees. Picture Gerard Binks
The display at the Christmas Tree Festival, St Johns Church, Knaresborough.
Putting the finishing touches on one of the trees.
Visitors viewing the trees.
This pink Christmas tree is one of dozens on show.
Christmas trees on display.
Three-year-old Freya Thompson from Knaresborough, in her Christmas hat, admires one of the trees.
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Visitors viewing the exhibits on display.
The eye-catching main exhibit.
Margaret Sikes, from California, admires one of the Christmas trees.
Four-year-old Sadie Kent has a closer look at one of the trees.
Sadie Kent and dad James, from Knaresborough, looking at the trees.
Some of the trees on display.
Freya Thompson from Knaresborough
Visitors taking photographs of the Christmas trees.
Freya McNab
Sheila Betts admires one of the trees.
Decorations on one of the trees.
More of the exhibits.
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