Kingsbridge Celebrated Christmas last weekend with stalls lining Fore Street and filling the Farmer’s Market.

Kingsbridge Celebrates Christmas took place on Saturday, December 2, with thousands of people turning to to see the stalls and welcome Father Christmas.

Father Christmas himself arrived in Kingsbridge in style on the ‘little train’, the Kingsbridge and District Light Railway, and toured the town before greeting children at his grotto in the Methodist church car park.

Not only were there stalls to make a jumpstart on Christmas shopping, but there was also live music throughout the day, a recycled Christmas tree competition in the Anchor Centre, a craft fair in the Kingsbridge Family Church, a Christmas Tree festival at the Methodist Church, free entry to the Cookworthy Museum, the lantern parade, Christmas disco and enough mince pies and mulled wine to feed an army.

There was also a tombola in aid of Kingsbridge Food Bank in the foyer at Tesco. Roger Tyler from the food bank said: “Thank you to everyone who helped or gave in any way”.

Wayne Grills, chair of the Kingsbridge Celebrates Christmas committee said the event was “packed” with people and that they had attracted fifty-five stalls on Fore Street and another twenty at the Farmer’s Market.

He said that stall holders had come from all over Devon, with some from Cornwall, and some very locally from the South Hams, and the stalls lined Fore Street from the top to the bottom. Some businesses on Fore Street also got involved, but they would “always welcome more”.

He said: “It went really well. We must say thanks to everyone who attended and supported Kingsbridge Celebrates Christmas 2017, we are already planning for next year!”

Kingsbridge Celebrates Christmas 2018 will be held as usual on the first Saturday of December, which next year happens to fall on December 1.

You can find out more about Kingsbridge Celebrates Kingsbridge and apply for a stall for 2018 on the website: kingsbridgecelebrateschristmas.com