Lights out

In the week before Christmas, the cones were at less than their best, with whole sections of lights missing. This is the one outside St Mary's Parish Church but the one on the Swine Market / Oat Market island was suffering a similar fate.

     Whether it is all down to faulty lights or whether some of the resident vandals are getting their kick from unscrewing a bulb or two to break the flow of current to some strings of bulbs, I don't know.  

MEANWHILE, in neighbouring Crewe, home to three of the cones, the powers-that-be also erected a real Christmas tree. But it died on them and had to be replaced. The tree was described by council people as being "distressed not dead" after complaints from the public.

AND in Poole, Dorset, which went to the national press over their cones, there was some success when those in authority bowed to pressure and put up a real tree.     

UPDATE: the Nantwich lights were fully working again on Saturday morning (19th). January 2: out again (as picture).

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