Earlier posts

Earlier posts
This blog is a continuation of an older one. To explore previous posts please click the photo above.

Saturday 17 December 2022

Our Saltaire tradition

Saltaire Living Advent Calendar 2022

It's that time of year again: the season of Advent and (as my long-time readers will know) Saltaire has a tradition of making the whole village into a Living Advent Calendar. Windows in the village houses and businesses are decorated and each night in December, up to Christmas, one or two are 'opened' to make a festive trail around the streets. I like to go around once or twice to look at and photograph some of them, and share a few here. 

The best ones for photos are the bold and graphic ones, like Saltaire Village Society's offering above, of carol singers round a tree. Some of the more detailed scenes, whilst pretty to view, don't show up well in a photo. Over the years I've learned that my phone is as good as my camera for snapping them too. The camera needs a tripod in the dark and on our narrow and uneven streets that is quite a hazard. There are always some that are impossible to capture - placed too high or hidden by cars or foliage, but there are usually enough good ones to make a few blog posts. It's a lovely walk around the village, which I will share with you. 

All of the windows can be viewed HERE too, as they are opened. 

4 comments:

  1. What a beautiful bit of design, enhanced by the choice of colours. Carol singing from door-to-door seems to have died as a tradition around here, though there's always an evening of carols hosted by our local pub.

    ReplyDelete
  2. What a great tradition, and how wonderful that you share it world wide here on blogland.

    ReplyDelete
  3. That is a good one. I always enjoy it when you show these each year.

    ReplyDelete