SHOPPERS will be able to rock around the Christmas tree next week when more than 15 festive firs arrive in the Borough.
Bolton Council will be sprucing up Victoria Square with two 40ft traditional Christmas trees that will be decorated with white lights. The Norway Spruces are being delivered from Thetford Forest in Norfolk on Wednesday. Putting the trees in place needs the help of an extendable hydraulic grab. The trees are suspended from the grab using webbing straps to prevent any damage while they are put into place.
They are then secured by fixing about 5ft of the tree into the ground and putting wooden chocks in place before town hall staff get to work decorating them in time for the Christmas lights switch-on which takes place on November 21.
The rest of the borough will also be decorated for Christmas with 40ft spruces being erected on roundabouts in Horwich and Middlebrook at either end of de Havilland Way and 14 trees standing 25ft tall going up at various
locations throughout Bolton.
They will all have their own switch-ons taking place between November 29 and December 6.
SHOPPERS will be able to rock around the Christmas tree next week when more than 15 festive firs arrive in the Borough.
Bolton Council will be sprucing up Victoria Square with two 40ft traditional Christmas trees that will be decorated with white lights. The Norway Spruces are being delivered from Thetford Forest in Norfolk on Wednesday.
Putting the trees in place needs the help of an extendable hydraulic grab. The trees are suspended from the grab using webbing straps to prevent any damage.
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