Aldeburgh Christmas Festivities

Visit the Parish Church for their Christmas Tree Festival; head to the Church Hall for a ‘Victorian Market’; book for a circuit round the festive skating rink at the Jubilee Hall; follow the Dickensian Christmas trail organised by Aldeburgh Museum; and visit Santa in his grotto at the Baptist Chapel.

The day will culminate with the switch-on of the Christmas lights on the High Street at 16.30 by the Aldeburgh Carnival Queen Poppy Martinez and Dickens characters Oliver Twist (Harrison Newrick-Meades) and the Artful Dodger (Archie Hill)!

Timetable of the day:

• The Church will be open all day with events including a peal of bells, Christmas tree festival, flower demonstrations, carol singing and readings from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and The Pickwick Papers.
• Festive Skating rink at Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall
• 11:00 Victorian Christmas Market in Aldeburgh Parish Church Hall (until 16:00)
• 11:30 RNLI Lifeboat launch to commemorate 120th anniversary of the lifeboat disaster
• 13:00 Museum opens with Dickens trail and Victorian activities (until 16:00)
• Santa’s grotto opens at Baptist Chapel (until 16.00)
• Christmas shopping event with the Red House providing a shuttlebus service circular route across town
• Hans Christian Andersen story readings for children at the library (until 16.00)
• Mrs Miggins festive pie ‘n cakes at Aldeburgh Hall Farm Café (until 16.00)
• Children’s funfair rides at Moot Green (until 20.00)
• 14:00 Brass band playing outside O&C Butcher
• Victorian tea party at Garrett House (until 16.00)
• 16:30 Christmas light switch-on by the Carnival Queen
• 17:00 The Muppet Christmas Carol at Aldeburgh Cinema
• Live music in the Cross Keys and White Hart pubs until 18.00
• 18.00 Launch of David Cadman’s book Noah an Old Fool at the Aldeburgh Bookshop with drinks and canapes (until 20.00)
• 19.00 Dickensian candlelit supper at The Mill Inn