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The Trafalgar Square tree is decorated in a traditional Norwegian style and adorned with 500 white lights. [5] In 2008, the tree utilised low-wattage halogen bulbs which used 3.5 kW of power. [5] At the base of the tree stands a plaque, bearing the words: This tree is given by the city of Oslo as a token of Norwegian gratitude to the people of ...
A picture taken of Trafalgar Square on December 5 2024 shows the tree with rows of lights hanging vertically in rows.. Pictures of the donated Christmas trees in December 7 2006, December 29, 2008 ...
The tree is selected by the Head Forester from Oslo's municipal forest and shipped, across the North Sea to the Port of Felixstowe, then by road to Trafalgar Square. The first tree was 48 feet (15 m) tall, but more recently has been around 75 feet (23 m).
Trafalgar Square's Christmas tree has been felled in Norway ahead of its arrival in London. The gift will arrive in the capital city before a lights switch-on ceremony on 7 December. Standing at ...
In some cases, the trees represent special commemorative gifts, such as in Trafalgar Square in London, where the City of Oslo, Norway, presents a tree to the people of London as a token of appreciation for the British support of Norwegian resistance during World War II; in Boston, United States, where the tree is a gift from the province of ...
Nelson's Column is a monument in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, Central London, built to commemorate Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson's decisive victory at the Battle of Trafalgar over the combined French and Spanish navies, during which he was killed by a French sniper.
Regardless of History [3] A head crushed between a book and the roots of a tree. [4] 2001: Rachel Whiteread: Monument: Whiteread's Monument, by an artist already notable for her Turner Prize-winning work House and the Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial in Vienna, was a cast of the plinth in transparent resin placed upside-down on top of the original ...
Alison Lapper MBE (born 7 April 1965 [1]) is a British artist.She is the subject of the sculpture Alison Lapper Pregnant, which was displayed on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square from September 2005 until late 2007.