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    Oxford Street's Lights: 1989 To Fit With Kylie Minogue's Touring Commitments. in 2015, The Lights Were

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    The document discusses the history and tradition of decorating Oxford Street in London with Christmas lights each year. It notes that the lights were first installed in 1959 in response to nearby Regent Street decorating with lights since 1954. It also provides details on the annual lighting ceremony and themes for decorations in recent years.

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    Oxford Street's Lights: 1989 To Fit With Kylie Minogue's Touring Commitments. in 2015, The Lights Were

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    The document discusses the history and tradition of decorating Oxford Street in London with Christmas lights each year. It notes that the lights were first installed in 1959 in response to nearby Regent Street decorating with lights since 1954. It also provides details on the annual lighting ceremony and themes for decorations in recent years.

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    The document discusses the history and tradition of decorating Oxford Street in London with Christmas lights each year. It notes that the lights were first installed in 1959 in response to nearby Regent Street decorating with lights since 1954. It also provides details on the annual lighting ceremony and themes for decorations in recent years.

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    Oxford Street’s Lights

     Every Christmas, Oxford Street is decorated with festive lights. The lights were
    originally installed in response to nearby Regent Street, which had featured
    Christmas lights since 1954 and the tradition of Christmas lights began in 1959,
    five years after neighbouring Regent Street. The lights were paid for by shop
    owners and the local council, and were installed in order to give a sense of
    occasion to shoppers that could not be found anywhere else. There were no light
    displays in 1976 and 1977 because of economic recession, but the lights
    returned in 1978.
     Current practice involves a celebrity turning the lights on in mid- to late-November,
    and the lights remain until 6 January (Twelfth Night). The festivities were
    postponed in 1963 because of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and in
    1989 to fit with Kylie Minogue's touring commitments. In 2015, the lights were
    switched on earlier, on Sunday 1 November, resulting in an unusual closure of the
    street to all traffic.
     The lights are in position since the beginning of October and the baubles are
    floating above Oxford Street by then.
     The theme this year is “Christmas is calling”.

     Christmas has officially launched on Oxford Street! The nation’s favourite


    high street has been lit up for the festive season, celebrating the start of
    Christmas with an exclusive series of in store gigs from the UK’s hottest
    homegrown musicians and the BIGGEST ever shopping party!
     THIS YEAR more local celebrities switched on the lights: the Empress, Ray
    Blk, RnB Powerhouse Kara Marni, soul-soother Isaac Waddington, and
    Novelist!
     It’s the fifty-ninth year the road has been decorated for the festive period
    and the switch on November the 6 until January the 6. This year their re-
    inventing their launch, treating Londoners to pop up performances from UK
    artists in selected stores down the street.  

    CHRISTMAS CRACKERS

     A cracker consists of a segmented cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated


    twist of paper with a prize in the central chamber.
     The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) lists English Christmas Crackers as
    an item prohibited from being brought onto an aircraft.
     Assembled crackers are typically sold in boxes of three to twelve. These typically have
    different designs usually with red, green, and gold colours. Making crackers from
    scratch using tissue paper and the tubes from toilet rolls is a common activity for
    children.
     Tradition tells of how Tom Smith of London invented crackers in 1847. He created the
    crackers as a development of his bon-bon sweets looking for new promotional ideas.
    His first tactic was to insert "love messages" into the wrappers of the sweets Smith
    added the "crackle" element when he heard the crackle of a log he had just put on a
    fire.

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