Does anyone know when the Christmas Illuminations on Green Lanes will be turned off?

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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on January 9, 2015 at 19:45

You may find they are not christmas decorations, they may have been justified as 'winter decorations' and therefore exist in their own dull modernist calender that offends and pleases no one in the same breath.

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Permalink Reply by John D on January 9, 2015 at 19:47

They help to cheer us up in the cold dark days of January.

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Riley on January 15, 2015 at 23:46

Usual waste of Haringey's resources!

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Permalink Reply by pamish on January 16, 2015 at 0:34

Could be they are hanging on for Candlemas, 2nd Feb, when BabyCheesus was presented to the Temple and his mother was no longer unclean. There's some accounts of the xmas feasting that went on till then. If you were shut indoors in the cold with the food running out, make a party, good tactic.

Or Imbolc, on 1st Feb - halfway between the solstice and the spring equinox, an important pagan date. Seed sowing begins then. 

Are the lights paid for by traders, thats another ancient tradition.

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Permalink Reply by Ruth on January 16, 2015 at 21:24

By the time they are off and gone, it will be time to put them back up again no doubt. May as well leave them….. 

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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on January 16, 2015 at 21:51

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