The Trafalgar Square Christmas tree is given by the city of Oslo as a token of Norwegian gratitude to the people of London for their assistance during the years — See our selection of companies that work hard to make you happy all through your trip.
The snow that covers most of the country and the dark nights add a magical touch to the holiday spirit. You can even visit Father Christmas himself.
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That's right, the 23m-tall Spruce has managed to swerve current international travel difficulties, and is making its way from Norway to London.
The tree comes from Oslo each year, a gift from the Norwegian people in a tradition dating back to That much is common knowledge. But how does a towering Spruce get from Norwegian forests to urban London for the holiday season? It's not simply a case of heading into the forest with an axe and swinging it at the first tree that takes your fancy.
Certain trees are identified as Trafalgar Square material years in advance, and given special care to help them reach their Christmas potential. The felling itself is a whole ceremony usually involving Lord Mayor of Westminster, the Mayor of Oslo, and a lot of carol-singing Norwegian children. Check Out. Adults 1 2 3 4. LOG IN. Log into your account. Recover your password. London Attraction. Get to know Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park ahead of world-class athletics.
The lions are also not the ones originally planned. The commission to design them went to another artist, Thomas Milnes, but his designs were felt to be unfitting for the site, so Landseer was given the second commission to redo the work. None of the lions are individually named, but collectively they are often called the Landseer Lions. Although cast in bronze, the original plans had called for stone or granite. The fountains were installed after the Square was originally laid out, for two very different reasons.
In part, it was to reduce the effects of reflected heat from the large expanse of paved surface, but the government was rather keen on reducing the space available for protests to gather in the Square. The fountain centrepieces are not the originals though. The originals were removed in the late s, and ended up in Ottawa, Canada. Originally the fountains were fed by a couple of wells underneath Trafalgar Square, but these were replaced by modern pumps, and a more recent upgrade can send a jet of water 24 metres into the sky.
Although they fell out of use for many years, they were restored back to working order in , but seem to be broken again in Just before WW1, a temporary police hut was installed in the Square itself, but it was the General Strike of and the agitation of strikers protesting in the Square that encouraged the police to see a permanent station in the square. This hollowed out lamppost is the result, but not after a very long process.
For the full details, and correcting some urban myths here. In the wall and steps along the north side of Trafalgar Square are a series of plaques, each representing an official measurement of distance. They were installed by the Board of Trade in after previous official measurements were destroyed when Parliament burnt down in Governments have long had official measures, to ensure that goods sold as weighing a certain amount, or cloth cut to a certain length actually matches what you would get if the same measurement was used elsewhere.
Today highly sophisticated measures are used, but back in Victorian times, these bronze plaques were considered so accurate that they were placed in public venues for anyone to come over and compare their own ruler against the official standard.
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