{"id":18203,"date":"2017-12-14T14:07:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T14:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=18203"},"modified":"2017-12-14T14:07:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T14:07:28","slug":"in-photos-the-christmas-lights-of-london-trafalgar-square-mayfair-and-winter-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/in-photos-the-christmas-lights-of-london-trafalgar-square-mayfair-and-winter-wonderland\/","title":{"rendered":"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-01.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short photo series showing some of the Christmas lights and decorations currently lighting up the streets around central London.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-03.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;s somewhat torpedo-shaped Trafalgar Square Christmas tree has been donated to the people of Britain by the city of Oslo, Norway, each year since 1947.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-04.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Choir singers belt out a tune in front of the tree.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-05.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-06.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-02.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps my favourite was the traditional orange peel decoration on the big tree inside the National Portrait Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>The custom of hanging fruit and baubles from green tree branches goes back to Roman times, where\u00a0the decorations were used to symbolise the fruits of the Earth and the fiery sun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-07.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More decorations around the centre of London.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-08.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-09.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-10.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I loved this Art Deco style decorations,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-11.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-12.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The decorations near\u00a0Piccadilly Circus incorporated the famous Eros character.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-13.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tree by the market stalls in the courtyard of St James Church, Piccadilly.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-14.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-15.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hyde Park was once again taken over by the Winter Wonderland event, a curious mix of Bavarian Christmas fair, fairground, festival food stores, Brit-style booze up.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-16.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-17.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I felt for this band. It must be a tough gig (but hopefully well paid),<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-18.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-19.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Working these stalls in the freezing cold must be quite a shitty job.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-20.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-21.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tat galore!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-lights-london-2017-22.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: the Christmas lights of London: Trafalgar Square, Mayfair and Winter Wonderland, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a short photo series showing some of the Christmas lights and decorations currently lighting up the streets around central London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[196,194,43,17,193],"tags":[24,1825,1620,10,1095,1826,1195,35,1337,1535],"class_list":["post-18203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nightlife","category-london-features","category-music","category-photos","category-places","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-lights","tag-lights","tag-london","tag-mayfair","tag-night-scenes","tag-photos","tag-trafalgar-square","tag-winter-wonderland","tag-xmas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/christmas-lights-london-2017-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4JB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18205,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18203\/revisions\/18205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}